[time-nuts] Thunderbolt and serial mouse

Scott Newell newell at cei.net
Sun Oct 25 20:38:09 UTC 2009


At 03:09 PM 10/25/2009, Steve wrote:
>I remember seeing a posting on this reflector in the last year or 
>two about how to disable the PC's serial mouse so a Thunderbolt can 
>be used on the serial port with no ill effects. Thought I saved that 
>email, but can't find it.
>
>Anyone remember how to disable the serial mouse? Or where the 
>posting/reference is?


Yeah, assuming you're running windows, add the /FASTDETECT switch to 
boot.ini.  Details at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963892.aspx

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newell  N5TNL 




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