there is nothing else on the comport you mention ? like a modem or so ?
and it's enabled in the bios ?
On the otherhand XP is known for it's bad behaviour with port acces.
Else try plugging in the mouse after you started windows XP (you can do that with serial mouses) so that windows doesn' t detect it. but the game can
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