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by europanorama

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i have a new wireless mouse ps2 bought for my friend. on my pc with special ps2 and serial-mouse-port its working on the ps2-port.
on the second pc there is no special ps2-port outside but a slot(round-opening). no port is behind. originally there was a logitech-mouse connected to a special card. i removed it and used the standard com1-port with serial output(plugin). now the ps2-mouse is working on that port with adapter. but wireless-mouse does not work. light of ir-receiver should be lit-onwith pc is working. i have an external parallel+ps2-mouse slot-cable with 2x9-pin(one is off). what can i do more to activate this mouse. its a noname socket 7 plus.board(i could not find it in the ali 1541-list. maybe the company(seen in the list) does not exist anymore. i tried to find the manufacturer over last weekend. but even with the help of others it was impossibly to find, even with ctbios and bios-agent(detect is dos-version)-both did even not show producer of my ga-5aa-gigabyte.
even with knowing whole bios-string bios-search-machines did not recognize it: here it is:
51-0501-008028-00111111-071595-41e-43c-ali1542-799-0
its not the matsonic 6261 because the ide-connectors are built-in the other way round(horizontal instead ofvertical(or at an angle of 90?)-
unknown socket7 plus-board, 2xsimm(72),2xdimm(168)
2x isa, 3xpci, 1xagp big marking: agp 100

ALI M1542 A1-chipset
amibios.
in other words, motherbord-org-forum could not help. any hints are wellcome(manufacturer or installing wireless-ps2-mouse). i was told there are a lot of boards which need special ps2-adapter from manufacturer.

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by thechas

Hi Michael,

Some of the newer PS/2 mice will not work on a serial (COMM) port.
You need to use a "Combo" mouse or straight serial mouse on COMM ports.

Some manufactures have decided that no one uses the COMM port anymore, and are leaving out the code to allow the mouse to talk with a COMM port.

This is most common on Mice that support USB connection.

If the motherboard has a 10 pin header near the keyboard connector, that may be a PS/2 port.

There are several different pinouts.So, without documentation, using the port will be hit and miss.

As to why you are not finding information on the motherboard;

My guess is that this is an OEM board.
These are often customized versions of the mother board manufactures standardboards.

If the board is an OEM board, the only route for support is to determine the brand and model of the PC that it was originally in.

Sorry that I couldn't be of more help.

Chas

by europanorama

i have found a second ali-motherboard-link(alladin v-chipset-1542) but unfortunately possible links are dead. like dataexpert.com.tw and ozz.com. so i need an outside-ps2-slot-cable for the 1x10-pins?

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