Faulty Mouse Port

[leongt]

I'm building a A1200 tower and the motherboard  http://amiga-hardware.com/download_photos/a1200mbr2bbig.jpg  has a faulty mouse port but I do have a old PC 9-pin mouse port like Amigakit sells  but would not know how to connect it to the amiga board because the pins are covered in.

Hope someone can suggest a workaround for it.

[motrucker]

Are you sure it is the port itself? This ends up being the actual problem in around 1% of cases. It is usually an IC (CIA chip) which is surface mount on the A1200.

[amiman99]

You could get a serial mouse drivers from Aminet and 9-25pin adapter to get the PC mouse working. You can use it temporarily till you find real problem. Make sure you have a cheap serial mouse, I have Logitec one and the drivers are not very compatible. I have a mouse with PC/MS switch, the mouse works fine in one of those settings, forgot which one.
But, there is a big drawback, this can only be used in Workbench environment. Games, software booted from floppies would not work.
I have a spare A3000 with bad mouse port and that's what I'm using for now till I get a chance to fix it or sell it for parts.

[leongt]

Are you sure it is the port itself? This ends up being the actual problem in around 1% of cases. It is usually an IC (CIA chip) which is surface mount on the A1200.

The guy I originally got the board off told me it had a faulty mouse port on the little board that plugs into the side of the motherboard and so I just thought I'd replace it with the pc style mouse port but then discovered that there where no pins to plug the pc port into