My mouse has been trapped!!

I turned on my new pawnshop special I bought as a learning project and after a couple of minutes of consideration it informed me "It is now safe to turn off your computer". During repeated attempts to convince it I REALLY preferred it to stay on, I noticed that during bootup a messaged flashed stating that it couldn't find the moused driver.

After exiting setup and trying a step-by-step boot to no avail, I finally got it up and running in safe mode. The mouse worked fine in SAFE, but it won't recognize anything but the keyboard, mouse and drive C. No A and no D (CD).

I have some driver disks and diagnostics but how do I get them in?

Its an old 133mhz somthing running Windows 95.

Any suggestions or a direction I might search?

Who trapped mickey and why?

 

Boot to Safe Mode. Then right click on My Computer>Properties>Device Manager Then remove every instance of mice (mouses? ). Then reboot. Windows should then redetect your mouse and sort its self out.

HTH

 

Yargwel,

I tried your suggestion and removed all the mice - and mouses - in safe mode. It still boots to turn off message in normal mode. Thanks for trying though.

 

Ok. Then have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q141898 and see if that helps any.

 

Yargwell:

That link looks to be on target. Thanks. As much help as that looks to be, it would be as much help if you could tell me how you found it. You -- and this forum -- were pretty much a last resort, and to keep from coming to you with all my stupid questions. You obviously spent considerable time finding that link. Thanks again.

With your link, I found and downloaded some files that I hoped would untrap the mouse. On booting, I got a message that the floppy drive was dead. I bought some used floppy drives and the machine booted with a black screen -- I tried three drives with the same result. I thought those drives were virtually interchangeable, but apparently not. I'm now in the process of fixing the floppy drive so I can fix the mouse. I'm embarrassed to ask, but any additional help would be appreciated.

As I have now cornered the neighborhood market on Valium and Prozac, I'm about to attack the problem again.

 

Well I found it by Googling this:

boots directly to "It is now safe to turn off your computer"

and I then found the link from the second item in the Googled list
But now I'm giving away all my secrets

Just one thing though... why do you need a floppy drive to fix the mouse. The PC should still boot OK without a floppy drive - just check you haven't dislodged any of the Hard Drive IDE cables when trying to install your other floppy drives.

 

Yargwel,

I needed the floppy drive 'cause I thought the problem was with lmouse.drv and I was going to reload it and then boot from the floppy disk I bought.

I'm going to try a tested floppy drive and I'll check the HD connections as you suggested, and if that doesn't work, try booting without a floppy drive. I saw CD ROM boot disk advertised but I have no idea whether Win 95 or this maching will boot from the D: drive. I'll let you know the progress (or lack of it) as soon as I finish placating the IRS for this year.

Regardless, thanks again for all the help.