USB Mouse Support for DOS or Safe Mode 1

[denutz]

Are there any drivers that can be loaded from a boot disk(s) that will provide USB mouse support?? Is there a way to get USB mouse support when booting to Safe Mode?

 

[dakota81]

I don't think so on that issue, but try to get someone else to respond. I do know, though, that the recent motherboards have support for a usb mouse in the bios. I myselft have an FIC AD11 board and in the bios setup there's an option to select if I've got a usb mouse. With that option enabled the mouse is recognized before any drivers are loaded.

 

[denutz]

Thank you. I have guessed as much, but maybe ???? I have the AZ11 and have never been totally happy with it. How do you like the AD11?? Stability??

 

[dakota81]

The AZ11 was never a very reliable motherboard from the beginning, as were many other earlier Athlon boards from other manufacturers as well, including Asus. I've dealt with the AZ11E a couple times and that board is stable, I haven't come across any troubles yet. I've put together three computers built off of the AD11 board and all three perform without any problems. The biggest difference going to the AD11 board is using AMD's chipset. With the reports that appear every so often around the net about troubles with VIA, it's going to take a while before I ever consider buying a board with their chipset again.

I was having problems early on with my new upgrade, my system would lock up constantly. I replaced out my video card's heatsink and fan for a better one and put heatsinks in the video ram chips, I run an MSI Geforce2 GTS Pro card. I also put on Termaltake's memory coolers onto my system ram chip. Ever since then my computer has been solid, never a lock up, and I'm running games at 1280x1024x16 no problem.

 

[tcnews]

I have an AZ11 board and the USB on it stinks, along with the CPU temperature reporting, the FSB stability at high speeds, ETC ETC ETC...

As for USB support in DOS, it doesn't exist. Nor will it exist in safe mode on that board. There's no support for it at all. Sorry.

BTW I've had a couple friends use the AD11 and they basically have the same issues with it I do with the AZ11...