Trackball + spinner

[GeoffE]

I was wondering if anyone has any experience getting both a track ball and spinner to be recognized by Windows ME at the same time.

My setup is this: Trackball on PS2 mouseport, spinner on USB port. If I have the spinner unplugged when I boot, the trackball works fine. Then if I plug in the spinner (while the PC is still on), both controls work fine. Moving either will move the mouse. But... when I reboot only the spinner (on the USB port) is recognized. Trackball does nothing. Only spinner moves the mouse (only on the X-axis, naturally).

Do I need to have both trackball and spinner on USB to get them to work simultaneously? Anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks -

  - Geoff

[OSCAR]

This is a strange problem that I haven't heard of before.  WinXP recognizes several simultaneous mice; do they both show up in the Device Manager if they are both plugged in when you boot your computer?

Make sure you have the latest motherboard bios for your PC.  This sounds like a mobo problem to me.  It certainly shouldn't be a hardware (meaning the mice) or software problem.

Have you tried this particular spinner & trackball combo on a different PC?

[u_rebelscum]

I was wondering if anyone has any experience getting both a track ball and spinner to be recognized by Windows ME at the same time.

My setup is this: Trackball on PS2 mouseport, spinner on USB port. If I have the spinner unplugged when I boot, the trackball works fine. Then if I plug in the spinner (while the PC is still on), both controls work fine. Moving either will move the mouse. But... when I reboot only the spinner (on the USB port) is recognized. Trackball does nothing. Only spinner moves the mouse (only on the X-axis, naturally).

Do I need to have both trackball and spinner on USB to get them to work simultaneously? Anyone have any other suggestions?

I agree with Oscar, that shouldn't be happening.

I have WinMe, a mouse in the ps/2 mouse port, and at least a trackball and mouse in 2 USB ports.  No real problems (except if I don't have the ps/2 mouse plugged in, the USB mice sometimes stop working one at a time, and I need to reboot to get them going again).  

Sometimes I'll have without problems some combo of up to 5 TBs (one is finger size, and only 3 are arcade quality, though), 2 mice, a spinner, or 2 lightguns plugged in USB.  Not all at once, of course.  

Maybe it's a driver race condition.  Have you tried uninstalling the mouse drivers and rebooting?  All my mice are install with the same driver to prevent any driver confusion.