+Ertman110 Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I just came into possession of a Garmin 35 PC. Garmin claims that it is "plug and play", but for some reason my pc and laptop think that it is some sort of serial mouse pointer. Does anyone have any insight into this equipment? Any help would be greatly appreciated - Mark Quote Link to comment
+park2 Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I don't know how to get it recognized as a GPS device but I can suggest a partial fix. When Windoze sees serial data coming in a port, it often recognizes it incorrectly as a serial mouse/pointer. Go into Control Panel / System / (possibly Hardware) / Device Manager / Mice & Other Pointing Devices and disable one of them (usually says something about serial mouse). Now it should just sit there. The G35 appears to have NMEA output (ASCII) so you can probably look at the output data while running HyperTerm or such. If you're lucky you may get streets & Trips or similar program to recognize it. more info here: http://www.garmin.com/products/gps35/ Quote Link to comment
+reepicheep Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I posted a reply on the GGA Forums with a possible answer, so check there. For those too tired from caching to visit the GGA forums, I suspect it is Windows attempting autodetection of a serial mouse. This can be disabled by editing the BOOT.INI file and adding the switch /noserialmice (in Windows NT) or /fastdetect (in 2000/XP). This is just a guess, but I've seen other people with similar problems with other serial devices fix it by entering in the switch. Kenneth Quote Link to comment
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