Number 239 - April 2003

No Mouse In Windows
by Bob Thomson
My son had his Win98 system working fine on the Internet. Then, one day his mouse would not work when Windows was loaded. It would work part way through the re-boot but not when Windows was fully loaded. We went through all the usual steps such as deleting the mouse and letting Windows find it again etc., etc.--all to no avail. Then he mentioned that he hadn't been satisfied with his sound card so he told me he reseated it. Still the bells didn't go off--although I asked if he might have inadvertently dislodged something else. Finally, he took the sound card out and the mouse worked again.	What he hadn't mentioned was that in reseating the sound card he also moved it to another slot--so apparently the addresses were all wrong. Thus:    1. When retracing steps taken don't leave out any steps and    2. When trouble shooting make only one change at a time.
Number 239 - April 2003