{"id":279,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=279"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"a-fix-for-frozen-mouse-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"A\n fix for frozen mouse problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your keyboard and mouse hangs after a cold reboot, this might help:<br \/>\nEnter your machine&#8217;s BIOS \/ PnP-PCI setup and change IRQ12 to &#8222;Legacy by ISA only.&#8220; (This option may appear differently, depending on your specific BIOS).<br \/>\nThe problem is caused by the fact that the PS\/2 port (where your mouse\/keyboard are connected) may not like sharing PnP IRQs. If your PnP BIOS decides to add another card to IRQ12, the port may hang.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Jonathan Hall (jonathanhall@compuserve.com) adds:<br \/>\nI have had the frozen mouse problem and have found a work around for it. The mouse is a Logitech wheel mouse on PS\/2, and the pointer would freeze at boot. I fixed it by telling BeOS that it was a two-button mouse.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>tom costin (tomcostin@mindspring.com) adds:<br \/>\nIf neither of these work, go into your bios and change &#8222;Assign IRQ to VGA to yes&#8220;. Worked for me&#8230;<br \/>\n[Editor&#8217;s note: These bugs should be cleared up in a future release]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your keyboard and mouse hangs after a cold reboot, this might help: Enter your machine&#8217;s BIOS \/ PnP-PCI setup and change IRQ12 to &#8222;Legacy by ISA only.&#8220; (This option may appear differently, depending on your specific BIOS). The problem is caused by the fact that the PS\/2 port (where your mouse\/keyboard are connected) may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}