PS/2 Mouse Randomly Stopped working

RushDrums87 · 02-08-2005, 01:24 AM

So I built my computer in august of this year. Soltek Mobo (SL-K8AN2E-GR), AMD Athlon 64 3200+, radeon 9800 pro, 512 mb ddr ram, and windows xp home. I have a microsoft Wheel mouse optical (original name huh? lol) and it has a usb to ps/2 converter. It has always worked on my moms comp, and worked on mine...until a few days ago. One night i shut down my computer, i woke up the next morning and it never actually shut down and said a program was not responding...it woudln't shut off any other way so i had to flip the power switch in the back. I came back from school booted it up and my mouse wasn't working, the LED light wasn't coming on and no response. My key board was perfectly fine. I tried another ball mouse in the ps/2 slot, no response from that either. I pluged the optical into the USB port and it worked fine. I researched this and found two possible problems, the BIOS got a bug in it, or the ps/2 slot fried...I hope the latter is not true, but makes less sense because then wouldn't the keyboard's ps/2 be fried as well? So thats where I am now. I hope someone can shed some light on this issue and hopefully give me a soloution other then trying to upgrade my BIOS. Thank you.

sho95 · 02-27-2005, 06:16 AM

maybe a bios setting option. Check you bios and look for ps2 options.

robina_80 · 03-07-2005, 06:10 PM

i find usb mouses are better than ps/2 mouses

Pyotr · 03-07-2005, 06:37 PM

PS2 (is it mice or mouses?) ones have a slot designated for them on most mobos, but if you use a lot of usb stuff, you might run out of slots and need to buy usb hubs (which aren't THAT cheap). That said, I'ven't tried a usb mouse, so can't argue about its funtionality.

On topic, isn't there 2 ps2 slots, one for keyboard and one for mouse? If so, if one burn, the other might still work, right?

Trukindave · 03-12-2005, 07:51 AM

Reinstall the drivers for the mouse.. sometimes drivers get messed up, deleted, moved, removed..

02-08-2005, 01:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
RushDrums87 New Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NJ Age: 21 Posts: 2	PS/2 Mouse Randomly Stopped working So I built my computer in august of this year. Soltek Mobo (SL-K8AN2E-GR), AMD Athlon 64 3200+, radeon 9800 pro, 512 mb ddr ram, and windows xp home. I have a microsoft Wheel mouse optical (original name huh? lol) and it has a usb to ps/2 converter. It has always worked on my moms comp, and worked on mine...until a few days ago. One night i shut down my computer, i woke up the next morning and it never actually shut down and said a program was not responding...it woudln't shut off any other way so i had to flip the power switch in the back. I came back from school booted it up and my mouse wasn't working, the LED light wasn't coming on and no response. My key board was perfectly fine. I tried another ball mouse in the ps/2 slot, no response from that either. I pluged the optical into the USB port and it worked fine. I researched this and found two possible problems, the BIOS got a bug in it, or the ps/2 slot fried...I hope the latter is not true, but makes less sense because then wouldn't the keyboard's ps/2 be fried as well? So thats where I am now. I hope someone can shed some light on this issue and hopefully give me a soloution other then trying to upgrade my BIOS. Thank you.

03-07-2005, 06:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
robina_80 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: LONDON Age: 24 Posts: 1,910	i find usb mouses are better than ps/2 mouses __________________ Windows Vista Home Pre x32 AMD 4200X2 S939 512K (2.2) 512M ASUS EN7600GSTOP SILENT 1x80Gb 1x320gb SATA2 2Gb Dual Channel PC3200 Non-ECC DDR Memory Gbyte K8N PRO SLi s939 nF4 530W TAGAN 2FORCE T530-U22 Clabs Aud 2 ZS 7.1 OEM

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02-27-2005, 06:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
sho95 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 385	maybe a bios setting option. Check you bios and look for ps2 options.

03-07-2005, 06:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
Pyotr Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 376	PS2 (is it mice or mouses?) ones have a slot designated for them on most mobos, but if you use a lot of usb stuff, you might run out of slots and need to buy usb hubs (which aren't THAT cheap). That said, I'ven't tried a usb mouse, so can't argue about its funtionality. On topic, isn't there 2 ps2 slots, one for keyboard and one for mouse? If so, if one burn, the other might still work, right?

03-12-2005, 07:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
Trukindave Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 27	Reinstall the drivers for the mouse.. sometimes drivers get messed up, deleted, moved, removed..