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| caliphe Tl Posts: 29 USA | Posted - 2/24/2002 4:29:11 AM     Can anyone out there tell me how to configure Windows 98' for a computer having keyboard, mouse, modem, and graphics card. The system had Windows 98' in it already so I don't have any books or anything. I'm mainly having trouble with getting my new mouse working. The Windows is giving an error message saying that the mouse is not detected. I have it plugged into the system and I'm trying to get the driver downloaded so that I can use it. I also need the settings for the floppy drive 3.5" and the cdrom underneath. I also have to hard drives. Please be very detailed so that i can understand to get my computer going. Thank you. Computers are a form of creating through imagination. |
| Peril Tl Posts: 12 | Posted - 2/24/2002 7:52:09 PM Simply installing or reinstalling Win98 should initiate a very simple process that will configure your system and install all drivers for the mouse, video, floppy, and hard disk(s). If a new mouse is not working, uninstall the old mouse, and then plug your new one in, and reboot the system. Windows should detect it and give you the option of installing drivers and such for the new one. If Windows98 does not do this for you, you can still select the Add Hardware wizard in the Control Panel (click START -> Settings -> Control Panel) and Windows will allow you to manually install it after it fails to detect the new hardware. If you have additional trouble, click on the help button, or just go to Start -> Help, and navigate the help files to the mouse troubleshooter. If you have problems after this, then asking people on a forum might be helpful, but you will need to provide a lot more specific details, such as model type of machine, CPU, drivers, kind of mouse, what you attempted, the exact errors you have seen on the screem, etc. Otherwise nobody is going to help you or even bother to respond to most of your posts. Do you homework first, otherwise you are not going to get serious assistance. I don't mean to be rude, but your posts almost seem to be trolls of some sort. My apologies to you in advance if this is not the case and you are a real "newbie." Also, IMHO, if you are experiencing real problems setting up general Window98 stuff, why don't you post your questions after doing your homework and after RTFM (Reading the "Fun" Manual) to usenet? Perahps something like the microsoft.public.* boards? This site (modemsite.com) is a site run by V.Richard and the target audience is mainly modem users and modem experts (not motherboard, CPU, or Windows 98 general discussion). You might get a lot more assistance for non-modem issues, if that is really what you are looking for, on boards more appriopriate to those sorts of questions. |
| caliphe Tl Posts: 29 USA | Posted - 2/24/2002 9:19:51 PM Thanks, I'm trying to learn this stuff. Thanks for the advice. And yes I am a 100% Newbie. Computers are a form of creating through imagination. |
| pauldog Tl Posts: 231 USA | Posted - 3/3/2002 11:37:07 PM One thing about the mouse and keyboard - unless they're USB, don't plug and unplug them unless the computer is off. |
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