CMOS ?

[Eelad]

Hi, I am curious as to rather or not enabling the ps/2 mouse function in the CMOS uses up one of the com ports. I figure it does because it uses serial, but I'm not to sure as to how the ps/s works.
Thanks in advanced for your ideas.

 

[ray436]

If you want to use a P/S2 mouse (small circular plug) you can enable the P/S2 port in your CMOS. It should be detected by Windows, and then you will be good to go.

Normally, it uses IRQ 12, and will free-up your comm ports, as the hardware for P/S2 is built into the chipset on your motherboard. Be aware you may endup with conflicts if something else is using IRQ 12 now.

Ray

 

[Eelad]

Thank you for that info. What you said clears up a lot of questions I had.

Dale