Dell mice oddity

Hi all,

I have a weird issue with the mice that ship with Dell PC's, and that is they
don't work on the PS/2 port, even on the Dell PC's they come with !

The mouse will function normally if you connect it via USB, but if you use a USB
to PS/2 convertor it doesn't even get power ! (laser doesn't light).

Any other USB mouse works fine with the convertor, it's only the dell mice that
have a problem (I have tried 3 different mice, 2 dell PC's and 1 generic PC).

Do the dell mice have a different pinout to most ?

Regards,
Chris



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To work on PS2 mice have to be designed to work on
both interfaces. Perhaps the Dell mice aren't dual system.
It is not a simple rewire question.

"Skeleton Man" <invalid@guestwho.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a weird issue with the mice that ship with Dell
> PC's, and that is they
> don't work on the PS/2 port, even on the Dell PC's they
> come with !
>
> The mouse will function normally if you connect it via
> USB, but if you use a USB
> to PS/2 convertor it doesn't even get power ! (laser
> doesn't light).
>
> Any other USB mouse works fine with the convertor, it's
> only the dell mice that
> have a problem (I have tried 3 different mice, 2 dell PC's
> and 1 generic PC).
>
> Do the dell mice have a different pinout to most ?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
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