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#1 2008-07-15 3:13 pm
- sturner
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Borked up driver installation
I was trying to install a driver for my Kensington mouse, and something went horribly wrong.
It won't take any input from any mouse, or the keyboard. I've got it trying to boot in safe mode right now, does anyone have any ideas?
Win XP SP2 running under VMWare Fusion.
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#2 2008-07-15 3:17 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
Safe Mode lets me use the keyboard, still no mouse.
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#3 2008-07-15 3:57 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
Finally got the keyboard to run, rebooted with the Windows install disc and repaired the system. The mouse finally works in safe mode.
edited:
Finished the repair. I was afraid I'd have to reinstall everything. The repair set the drivers back to the original settings. All is now working.
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#4 2008-07-17 12:36 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
From Sad to Pathetic. Fusion refuses to boot from that partition anymore. Says that the snapshot is in use or something. So I just made a regular Fusion instance and reinstalled everything. The old hard partion is still available and I'm using it as a second drive. Works for me. Back in business. But the Logitech LCC for my mouse still won't recognize that a mouse is connected. It will in Bootcamp, but not in Fusion. And Logitech customer support can only tell me the usual procedure, which I've done multiple times, and it still doesn't work. But for now I've got basic working efficiency from the mouse.
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#5 2008-07-17 12:44 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
Last time I installed a mouse driver was in DOS.
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#6 2008-07-17 12:46 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
I must use fancier mice than you 
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#7 2008-07-17 12:47 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
One button ought to be enough.
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#8 2008-07-17 3:40 pm
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Re: Borked up driver installation
sturner wrote:
I must use fancier mice than you
Why LogiTech software with a Kensington mouse?
(Btw, nobody uses fancier mice than hardore PC gamers. Our lasers eat your Mighty Mice for hors d'oeuvres. 
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Logi's driver packages haven't the best history. I'd be hesitant to use anything but Window's own basic mouse driver in a VM. 'Sides, most any adjustment a non-gamer should ever need is available under Windows &/or in hardware. Maybe that Kensington lacks a li'l sumfin'... real mice these days have hardware-adjustable sensitivity.
Tell Kensi he comes up a bit... short. (I know, bad news for Barbi... ton. Dems da breaks).
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