[time-nuts] Thunderbolt and Windows XP

Stan, W1LE stanw1le at verizon.net
Sun Jun 15 22:59:38 UTC 2008


I added a serial switch box. I boot up when the T'bolt serial is 
switched off
and turn on the serial connection with the switch box to do t'bolt mon.

Stan, W1LE    FN41sr   Cape Cod


David C. Partridge wrote:
> Windows XP gets mighty confused by a TB connected to a serial port and
> installs the MS Ball-Point Mouse driver and tries to interpret the packet
> from the TB as mouse commands - just go into device manager and disable the
> MS Ball-Point Mouse!
>
> The TB also confuses the heck out of Acronis bootable utilities - they also
> see it as a rodent.   I now unplug the serial cable to the TB when I need to
> use these.
>
> Thought this information might help someone.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
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