Second Mouse.

[+Logscaler and Red]

Hey gang.

 

I have a problem that those guys at microsoft do not want to deal with so I came here to get the expert opinion of the masses.

 

I had to get another laptop - HP Pavilion ze 4210 running Windows XP - and I have a problem with it seeing the Magellan 330 or 315 as a second mouse.

 

If I turn the laptop on with the gps already on with nema data streaming, the laptop scrambles data and moves the cursor all over the screen, opening and closing programs and I have to turn the gps off and then restart the laptop.

 

Other then turning the gps on after I have the laptop up and running, any one have a pointer or two on how to get this second mouse stopped?

 

logscaler.

[+pizzachef]

Can you just disconnect the GPS when you turn on the laptop? The reconnect it after it boots up? Works for me.

 

-pizzachef

[+Logscaler and Red]

pizzachef;

 

Right now, I leave the gpsr off or not connected when I fire up the laptop but I would like to be able to kill off the problem so I do not have to go through all the song and dance.

[+smithdw]

Found this on a Google newsgroups search:

 

Does your XP detect a pen point or mouse when the GPS is running? If so,

disable the falsely detected mouse in the device manager. Do not remove it,

just disable it.

 

"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."

-Marcus Dolengo

[Ruffian949]

Saw this in a earlier post, not sure if it applies to you or not, but give it a read:

 

TotemLake quote: "Don't boot up your system with the GPS on. Boot up first then turn on your GPS. That should resolve your problem. Unless you have a need for it, you can also turn off the NMEA communication on the GPS as this is what is causing the system to recognize erroneously that there is a mouse on the COM port. The GPS will transmit regardless if there is a program needing it or not when the NMEA mode is on."

 

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[+Logscaler and Red]

Thanks for the info so far guys.

 

And I do use the nema for live tracking on the laptop.

 

HP was no help.

 

Neither was Microsoft, sofar anyway.

 

Neither was magellan.

 

I will keep looking.

 

This did not happen on the Micron laptop running 98 so there has to be a way to do away with it, somewhere, somehow.

[+Logscaler and Red]

Got it.

 

Thanks for all the advice and pointers. Key word was pointer. I had to disable the pointer wheel in the device manger setup.

 

logscaler.

[+pizzachef]

So does that mean you can't use the scroll wheel on your mouse? I think I use that more than any other button anywhere on the computer.

 

-pizzachef

[+Logscaler and Red]

This problem was for my laptop, and it has a touch pad and not a mouse.

 

And it is also for a serial port connected mouse only, all others are safe.

 

logscaler.

[Couch_Potato]

My Dell Inspiron with XP will thy to use my Legend as a serial mouse if I boot up with it connected using NMEA format. It was quite annoying when the pointer would jump around the screen and randomly click on things. It also made it difficult to fix the problem, which was as simple as deleting the serial mouse entry from the device manager. I usually had to change to Garmin communication format to delete the serial mouse entry. Then it worked fine, even when in NMEA format. I had to use NMEA format with MS S&T to show location, I've since moved on to Metroguide and deal with Garmin format which doesn't cause problems.

 

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I just don't know where I am.