[pchelpers] Re: mouse

Try  either using the keyboard to highlight what you want (tab, arrows, 
enter) with the new mouse connected. See if the CD will autostart and 
install the driver. Also check which operating system it is designed for.

G.R. Hanson wrote:

>A friend of mine needs help with this. What do I tell her?
>Re-Na Hanson
>
>
>      We got a new mouse for the computer tonight...a Logitech optical mouse.  
>  We unpluged the old mouse, plugged in the new one, turned on the computer, 
> and this is the message we got: 
>
>      "Windows did not detect a mouse attached to your computer.  You can 
> safely attach a serial mouse to your computer now.
>
>      To attach a mouse to a PS/2 mouse port, you must first turn the computer 
> off."
>
>      Which is exactly what we did (turn the computer off before we attached 
> the new mouse).  And the new mouse wouldn't move the cursor at all.  We have 
> an HP computer, could it be that the mouse isn't compatible with our 
> computer?  The mouse came with a CD that is supposed to help the computer 
> detect the new mouse, I think, but when we put the CD in the drive (with the 
> old mouse attached because that was the only way we could get the cursor to 
> move to "My Computer" then click on the CD drive) it hung up once it started 
> running the CD.  I'm frustrated and I don't know what to do!!!!  We thought 
> this would work with any comp., as long as you had Windows 98 (which we do), 
> but it doesn't seem to like our comp.  Any suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated.  
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