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I just started using a Viewsonic monitor with my laptop and upon rebooting, the mouse was disabled. No mouse device exists when looking for it under devices/drivers. I rebooted into BIOS and the mouse device is set on Automatic. There is no option at this point for enabled.

I also tried reinstalling mouse drivers from the manufacturer website to no avail.

Lenovo Thinkpad R60, standard issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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by shasca

USB mouse I assume. You didn't connect through USB in the monitor did you? If so you would have to run a USB cable from the monitor to the latop to enable it.

What do you see in the device manager? Any yellow question marks for any human interface devices

by thechas

Is this a PS/2 or a USB mouse?

If it is a PS/2 style, is there any chance the mouse was plugged in or unplugged with power on?

The PS/2 port is not very well protected, it is fairly easy to damage the port when unplugging or plugging in devices when the port is powered.

If it is USB, have you tried a different USB port or a different mouse?

While USB is hot pluggable, it is still possible to damage a port or device.

Chas

by older mycroft

If nothing else, you might 'discover' what you did the first time round.

by end

this is on a laptop, so no peripheral mouse - just the pad and the thinkpad dot. the monitor was a CRT input. i've tried booting without the monitor and also with the monitor, neither way gets the mouse back.

by seanferd

Add New Hardware wizard in Control Panel.

Or, if you have the drivers/recovery disk, try re-installing the drivers.

by older mycroft

The touchpad can be turned off by use of Fn+[one of the F keys].

On my laptop the touchpad can be turned OFF/ON by pressing Fn+F7. Perhaps you brushed against these keys (or whatever combination your laptop uses) while connecting the external monitor ?? ;)

by end

Problem solved. Further documentation below.

In answer to the above replies, touchpad was enabled through use of Fn F7, when I tried to enter settings for the mouse I get the following message:

"Touch Pad is disabled from BIOS. Please enable it from BIOS or the ThinkPad configuration utility."

The first time I went through BIOS and tried re-enabling the mouse, nothing happened. However, after a few more reboots through BIOS the device was resurrected somehow. Just hungry for some BIOS attention I guess...

Thanks all for the help, greatly appreciated.

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