I feel a bit silly but this one is stumping me so I thought I would get your guys/gals input.
A friend recently purchase a new optical ps2 mouse for her computer. She has an older computer so I had to try to use a converter to change the mouse to serial (the computer doesn't have a ps2 port). It didnt work, but I did try the new mouse in a computer that does have a ps2 port and it worked with no problems.
On the 2nd computer, I tried to hook the optical mouse up to the converter and plug it into the serial port....didn't work. I used a plain old ps2 mouse to connect to the converter and connected that to the serial port and it worked.
So, what I am thinking is that the new, optical mouse isn't convertable.
what do you guys think?
BTW, operating system is Win98.
A friend recently purchase a new optical ps2 mouse for her computer. She has an older computer so I had to try to use a converter to change the mouse to serial (the computer doesn't have a ps2 port). It didnt work, but I did try the new mouse in a computer that does have a ps2 port and it worked with no problems.
On the 2nd computer, I tried to hook the optical mouse up to the converter and plug it into the serial port....didn't work. I used a plain old ps2 mouse to connect to the converter and connected that to the serial port and it worked.
So, what I am thinking is that the new, optical mouse isn't convertable.
what do you guys think?
BTW, operating system is Win98.