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SERVSWITCH™ SPECTRA
The CPU will be thrown out of sync if it has a PS/2
mouse port and it’s in sync when you issue this
command. Issue this command two or three
more times to get it back in sync again.
If you have version 9.01 or higher of the Microsoft
mouse driver, the CPU should never get out of sync.
Contact Microsoft if you would like to upgrade your
Microsoft mouse driver. CPUs with serial mouse
ports are naturally immune to this problem.
Sometimes the mouse can “get stuck” for other
reasons, and you’ll have to press the Spectra’s reset
button to reinitialize it. See Section 5.1.
4.6 Reset Computer’s Mouse Port
If the currently selected CPU is running Windows NT
(or possibly Windows 98 or Windows 2000, depending
on your mouse-driver version) and the PS/2 mouse gets
“out of sync” (see Section 4.5 for an explanation of this),
you can enter a “Reset Computer’s Mouse Driver”
command. When you do, the ServSwitch will send the
CPU a signal to reset its PS/2 mouse port by completely
reinitializing its mouse driver. (For machines whose
operating system and mouse driver both support this