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Thank you, The Chas.
I found that swapping ms & kb ps/2 plugs, or plugging in
the ms, w serial ms plugged in, helped my get the serial
mouse to work. I also had to use win95 kb shortcuts to \
change the IRQ & res settings for serial ports indevice
mgr (+ & - to chk/unchk boxes). Later I found out how to change these settings in the Phoenix BIOS setup prog. The
mouse port has continuity-I know because the 3 KB LEDs
flash several times during boot when the KB is plugged
in to the ms port & the BIOS says "Keyboard error". Also
tried disable/enable ps/2 mouse in setup. Only one "res-
ource configuration" allowed in Device manager. Nothing
seems to get the ps/2 mouse to work, 'though the port is
live. "Mouse driver initialized"showed up after I swit-
ched KB & ms plugs & after I plugged the mouse back in,
w the serial mouse plugged in at the same time, 'though
before next boot, I could remove the ps/2 mouse & the
serial ms still worked. I also installed a ps/2 ms drvr
w a floppy. No dif. Changing drivers from standard ps/2
to MS ser. ms didn't mk the serial ms wk. I think there
is just a bad circuit somewhere behind the PS/2 ms port.
Thanks to everyone who commented!

Thanks popeye! please see above.

Thanks smmurphy! I was always careful to change connections after shutdown & turn off.

Thanks zlito! So far I have not learned how all
the resources are assigned. Possibly the ps/2 mouse port
will work with further setting changes, but device mgr
only shows "IRQ 12" & no board address for it. Only
"Resource Configuration 0000" is allowed. the only set-
ting for ps/2 mouse in Setup is enable/disable. At least
the serial mouse is working now.