to fix this situation add the following statement to the end any line under the [operating systems] that has multi(0) scsci(0) in it in the boot.ini. the boot.ini is found on the c: drive on a NT system.
/noserialmice
IMPORTANT!!!! do not put it on the top line of the boot INI. that says: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT