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Sp!ke
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count me in for 6 
Ha ha ha, I did it so many times on my laptop and PC plugging in a ps2 keyboard after it booted and it still OK after 8 years.
So does or doesn't it work when you plug it to your PC - you ask how to get it to work, then say you have been doing it for years!
Can senility be troubling our legendary creature?
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no need for a lit match. Just breathe hard on it and consume it totally
Sp!ke
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Laptops are designed for portability, designed so that you can suspend, sling it in your bag, drive to work and power up and attach your peripherals without needing a restart.
PC's are simply not designed to do this. The Bios will often error out if it cant see a keyboard and mouse at startup.
Its possible your bios does support this option on your desktop but frankly if your machine is using ps2 its likely to be so old that the bios wont support it.
Your post also begs the question - why do you need to do this? Are you sharing keyboards between multiple PC's or something?
As others have said, if you want to do this just buy a USB keyboard. £10...
PC's are simply not designed to do this. The Bios will often error out if it cant see a keyboard and mouse at startup.
Its possible your bios does support this option on your desktop but frankly if your machine is using ps2 its likely to be so old that the bios wont support it.
Your post also begs the question - why do you need to do this? Are you sharing keyboards between multiple PC's or something?
As others have said, if you want to do this just buy a USB keyboard. £10...
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You are near but not near enough, what do I have to do in the PC Bios to behave like the laptop bios that recognised hot swap of PS2 devices?
It not why do I did this, sometimes it quite easy to forget to plug in the PS2 devices on the PC. It just one of the funny world I noted it OK on the laptop but not on the PC.
NB I fixed the power supply shorted the 12V output. Have to use the hacksaw to carefully prised open the plastic box and glued it back with super glue. As for the laptop keyboard, liquid had been spilled on the keyboard control chip on the system board. Have to disable the keyboard and touchpad and use an external keyboard and mouse. That where I noted the difference between the laptop and PC hot swapped of PS2 devices.
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Shutup, another irritant.
You are worse than the Yorkshire terrier!
Are you referring to me? if so I'd appreciate an apology as this is insulting.
If not then just who are you referring to?
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Guys guys.
Why can't we all be friends?
Why can't we all be friends?
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I dont think he can be referring to you Pammy as we (a lot of us) know you and know there is no resemblance whatsoever either physically or emotionally.
To be completely honest I havnt got a clue what Dragon goes on about 99.9% of the time and I suspect nor does he. So I wonder who it is thats barking here
i have plugged mice keyboard back in when live and havent fried anything yet... our work one always seems to fall out!
Sp!ke
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It just depends on the BIOS of the MOBO, what it supports and whether the feature is turned on or not.
You could do worse than update the BIOS to the latest revision anyway if its not already current.
You could do worse than update the BIOS to the latest revision anyway if its not already current.
Once the machine have booted with the keyboard connected swapping generally seems OK, used to do quite a bit as a manual KVM (many years ago). Now I just use VNC/remote desktop.
columb
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Is it only me old enough to remeber PS/2?
as in wikipedia:
Hardware issues
PS/2 ports are designed to connect the digital I/O lines of the microcontroller in the external device directly to the digital lines of the microcontroller on the motherboard. They are not designed to be hot swappable. Hot swapping PS/2 devices usually does not cause damage due to the fact that more modern microcontrollers tend to have more robust I/O lines built into them which are harder to damage; however, hot swapping can still potentially cause damage on older machines, or machines with less robust port implementations.
Cheers
Chris
as in wikipedia:
Hardware issues
PS/2 ports are designed to connect the digital I/O lines of the microcontroller in the external device directly to the digital lines of the microcontroller on the motherboard. They are not designed to be hot swappable. Hot swapping PS/2 devices usually does not cause damage due to the fact that more modern microcontrollers tend to have more robust I/O lines built into them which are harder to damage; however, hot swapping can still potentially cause damage on older machines, or machines with less robust port implementations.
Cheers
Chris
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NB I fixed the power supply shorted the 12V output. Have to use the hacksaw to carefully prised open the plastic box and glued it back with super glue. As for the laptop keyboard, liquid had been spilled on the keyboard control chip on the system board. Have to disable the keyboard and touchpad and use an external keyboard and mouse. That where I noted the difference between the laptop and PC hot swapped of PS2 devices.
This is just a load of hassle. what archaic system do you use. Your PC self diagnosis on start up and will recognize any faulty peripherals. most give a sound warning when it checks that device. mine does.
put in a new device, reboot and presto.
The BIOS is the key.
Laptops are designed to behave a litllte bit like plug and play devices.
Is this a cry for help or a trick question anyway?
Honestly dragon i just give up with you sometimes
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[Yorkshire accent]PS/2 that's new fangled stuff that is lad[/Yorkshire accent]. This very keyboard I'm typing on has a full size din connector (plugged into a PS/2 adaptor) and an AT/XT switch on the back.Is it only me old enough to remeber PS/2?
nigel cross
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Yorshire accent again
I used to live in paper bag in middle of road, but tell the kids today and they will never beleive you
I used to live in paper bag in middle of road, but tell the kids today and they will never beleive you
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Well we 'ad it tough.
Used to get up 'arf hour before we went to bed, AND pay t' mill owner for permission to work.
Used to get up 'arf hour before we went to bed, AND pay t' mill owner for permission to work.
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tha wur lucky.................
