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strosien · 08-15-2004

Ever boot up Windows with your GPS active then Windows sees it as a serial mouse then goes nuts requiring you to reboot without the GPS attached? Quite a pain, no? There is an easy fix.

For NT4 on up through XP, modify your boot.ini to include /noserialmouse=comx where comx is the com port you will have your GPS attached to.

i.e: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noserialmouse=com2

will prevent a GPS on com2 from being detected as a mouse. enjoy.

08-15-2004	#1 (permalink)
strosien Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Michigan, hehe... Posts: 55	FIX: Windows sees GPS as mouse & pointer goes nuts Ever boot up Windows with your GPS active then Windows sees it as a serial mouse then goes nuts requiring you to reboot without the GPS attached? Quite a pain, no? There is an easy fix. For NT4 on up through XP, modify your boot.ini to include /noserialmouse=comx where comx is the com port you will have your GPS attached to. i.e: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noserialmouse=com2 will prevent a GPS on com2 from being detected as a mouse. enjoy. __________________ Just wanna drive....