Hi,
maybe what I'm going to say seems to be obsolete but I think is is good
also for now:

in normal cases, COM2 and COM4 share IRQ3, furthermore, COM1 and COM3
share IRQ4. Such way, if you use e. g. COM1 and your mouse is on COM3, the
situation you described is understandeable. I see, the thinnest bottleneck
for nowadays PC is the number of IRQ's. Try to move the mouse's IRQ in the
hardware setup to a free one (if it is possible at all) or change the COM
port you are using to the opposite of that of the mouse.

Hope this helps.

Imre


On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Howard wrote:

> Thanks to those who answered my question a few days ago.
> I now have data (not quite correct.... yet ) on the  Hyperterminal
> screen.
> However! (there's always one)
> The data will not appear on the screen unless the mouse is moving!
> Yep!  That's what I said!
> Stop the mouse, the data flow stops.  Move the mouse - the data flow
> starts, and continues as long as the mouse is kept moving!
> The mouse is on a motherboard port, which has been "cmos'd" to comm3 (or
> comm4, I forget) and a serial card has been "cmos'd" to comm1 and
> comm2.  (Stamp basic will only look at comm 1 and 2, hence to use the
> card with stamps (so I don;t blow up the motherboard) I had to change
> things.  Whether this has something to do with it, I don't know.
>
> Any ideas? Regards Howard.
>
>