Can anyone tell me why I can have video drivers, or a mouse that works, but not both?

Before I left for CA, I started having mouse problems, and machine lockups. I tried changing video cards, but whenever I would install the drivers for it, the mouse would stop working. I just installed a brand-new 128M NVidia card, and the mouse worked fine, until I installed the drivers. Now, it boots and the mouse won't budge the cursor.

Any ideas?

[Update for more info]

It's a PS-2 mouse, running on W2K. I repeat. It works fine if video drivers aren't installed.

[Late afternoon update]

After several reboots, it's finally working. The ways of Windows passeth understanding.

which machine is this on?

If the mouse is running in a USB port, power the CPU down, plug the mouse into a different USB port and power back up. What OS are you running? MS XP in my shop. Good Luck!

Yes, if the mouse is USB, power down and power up and it should see it. If its a PS2, add/remove hardware and remove it, then add it again with the drivers. If that doesn't work, go find updated drivers on the net. I would consider dropping the money though for an upgrade to Win XP, the driver issues with that OS are far less than W2K.

Sounds like an interrupt conflict. Win2k should prevent this, but maybe your bios constrains the mouse IRQ to one the video card uses and cannot change. Anyway, it's probably worth firing up the bios config to see...

Oh, never mind. That's what you get for skim reading :)

Rand

Buy a Mac

:)

Dennis

I'm not for sale :)

Or I'm REALLY expensive!