Why Did I Try and Upgrad!?!

Ok I like a dumb donkey decieded to upgrade to XPpro from 2k. Now it wont recognize my IBM optical navigator mouse and also I cant get my NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter card to work either. I am one stupid SOB to think it was going to go smoothly. any ideas on getting these two things to work?

yeah remember that when XP first came about there was a laundrylist of hardware that had conflicts with XP. I'm betting you just need some fresh XP drivers and you should be on your way.

did you install XP sp1? The USB 2.0 drivers were not in the original XP install.

this is a bit off topic but whats a laundry list? I heard the expression before but never quite understood what it meant. Do people make a list of things they need to wash?

To make my post not completely useless, when I upgraded to XP Pro, it had comatability issues with my burner. I downloaded latest drivers from the manufacturer and everything was fine.

i suppose its 'big'

Well I finally got the the USB pci card to work. Sp1 was downloaded but I had to go and get 2.0 drivers for the Mobo as its an old board. Also I have to use a PS2 adapter for my mouse to work. Dont know why it wont work with the USB but it just doesnt. THis kinda sux cuz I have a KVM switch and I used my USB mouse for my main rig and had an old PS2 mouse for for the KVM. Now that my USB mouse is taking up the PS2 slot I have to crawl under my desk and switch em if I want to look at my server. I got the KVM cuz VNC was jsut too slow with my ol' Pentium 200 server . I guess I'll have to try and find a PS2 Y splitter (do they make em'?) so I don't have to be crawling under my desk.

Might seem wierd but did you try the mouse in a different USB port, I had mine stop working after flashing my BIOS, worked fine in the PS2 port but no USB at all, although my USB gamepad worked fine. I don't know how I came about it, but I booted my rig up with the mouse unplugged and then once windows was loaded i plugged it into a different port than usual and it detected it! Its worth a try.

Yap tried that on a bunch of different ports......Thanks tho...

Perhaps also try unistalling the PS2 port mouse in the device manager then rebooting and doing the method above. Or maybe its just an issue with that particular brand of mouse. You would think it would work fine if it worked in 2k, as XP is based on the 2k kernal

BTW, did you do a clean install or the actual upgrade over 2k? I know that sometimes causes problems.

Oh it was an upgrade.......Thats where most of my problems started but I did 2 other comps but they didnt have half the crap on them as my main rig.