Hi AO Addicts!

i hope that you can help me with this one, and i also hope that you dont say get a new motherboard / my hardware is buggered!

First things first, heres my sys spec:

Celeron 700mhz

Dual Boot-
2 x 20gb HDD
-Mepis
-XP

384mb RAM

motherboard-
Aopen MX3S

Graphics-
ATi RAGE128 pro AGP / rage fury pro

F U NEED ANY MORE SPEC OR N MORE DETAiL PLZ ASk!!!!


THE PROBLEM:

Almost all the time i turn the computer on, the mouse doesn't work. The PC i am using is an old one which has been put together for me by this computer project (so if i cant sort this out i will take it back! But i'd like to solve this one!)

i am using a PS/2 mouse. as far as i know, the sys should automaticaly detect the mouse and assign it an irq which is usualy 12. Only sometimes does the mouse get detected.

After doing a little research on the net trying to solve the problem (using the mumber pad to direct the cursor) i was unable to find anything that could realy help. i checked the irq's and it turns out that irq 12 was being occupied by my graphics card! is this normal? can i change this?

This problem is realy doing my nut in, pls, any suggestions welcomed...

Also... i have attached a file with a list of where all the irq's are assigned to. i couldnt be arsed to type them all in, up to you if u download 100% safe as houses!

i look forward to your infinate wisdom(s)!!!!!!!