[time-nuts] Thunderbolt and Windows XP

[Scott Newell]

At 01:53 PM 6/15/2008, 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!

I think there's a way around this.  Under win2k, you could set a flag 
in the boot.ini file to disable scanning for serial mice at 
boot.  Looks like it's good for XP as well.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721

"/fastdetect:comnumber
This switch turns off serial and bus mouse detection in the 
Ntdetect.com file for the specified port. Use this switch if you have 
a component other than a mouse that is attached to a serial port 
during the startup process. For example, type /fastdetect:comnumber, 
where number is the number of the serial port. Ports may be separated 
with commas to turn off more than one port. If you use /fastdetect, 
and you do not specify a communications port, serial mouse detection 
is turned off on all communications ports."

Also see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131976/


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