PS/2 optical mouse destroyed?

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

Probably I made a big mistake, but I need some clarification about it.

I tried the mouse with a normal PS/2 computer and it worked.

I had an old motherboard with PS/2 mouse support (4 pin connector on the board) but I din't have the cable and the 6 pin connector that connects the motherboard and connector on the mouse cable.

The motherboard documentation did not specify the exact layout of the 4 pins on the board so I tried to experiment (bad move I guess) with the cable I've bought (4 pins on the mobo side and the standard 6 pin connector on the mouse side). The colors of the cables were brown, yellow, green, and red (ground, +5V, data, clock).

Trying the different combinations I got to the point where the mouse (an optical mouse) started to give signs of normal operation at boot time but it still did not work either in DOS or in Windows 98.

Then after some more combinations (and after thinking that I'm almost there), the mouse stopped giving any signs, even with the combinations that seemed to be working before.

Now the mouse doesn't work with the above mentioned normal PS/2 comupter either.

Any chance of reviving the mouse?
Thanks for any help

 

[Guest_imported]

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[Guest_imported]

Oh dear, mouse revival? Not much chance I'm afraid... Although these devices have some buffering within, they're unlikely to cope with wrong connections like this. You might also have b*ggered the PS/2 port on that motherboard, but if you still have the comm ports available then a serial mouse will probably be ok.

Checking a mouse at the DOS level is always best, but of course you need to have an appropriate driver loaded. After that, using something like CHECKIT will test out button functions, x & y axis movement etc.


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