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Dead Mouse Port! Help!!!

    17-May-90 06:50:42
Fm: Keith E. Coldiron 73647,3564
To: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
Mike, That's pretty interesting to hear. I've been trying to get the new ROMs for both my 2620 and my 2091 for a couple of weeks now. Commodore has not been so cooperative with my dealer here. Dave Minnich is trying to get things moving for me. I have the current level ROMs on the AT BB as I made sure of that when I got it. They had just started shipping. I have a loaner now for the duration of the repair but when I was swapping all my cards over I did find I had a bad cable on the AT BB. In fact it initially wouldn't let the machine boot at all! When I replaced the cable the machine came up fine. I also ran into those weird things like the drives not working, my hard drive wouldn't even boot it just started to read and then pooped out. The new cable took care of all of the problems so I have a system for now. I'd tried your idea of using the Amouse but it didn't buy me a thing. The ports would apparently swap because the PC menu bar read correctly but the mouse wouldn't work on the right port either! Did you HAVE to have amouse running on the PC side for this to work? I couldn't and never have gotten the amouse routine to run on the BBoard with the 2620 and with no mouse their is no way to disable it! Anyway I'll be checking the old machine with no cards in it before I declare it officially dead. It probably is but I'll make sure it wasn't the cable. Thanks for relaying the story. Keith