IBM Model M keyboard not working with ECS K7VZA v3 motherboard.

[manchesterriots]

So I finally managed to acquire what I feel is the single best keyboard ever made by anyone, the beautiful IBM Model M. I love the clicking sound like nothing else. So, naturally, I would want to use this keyboard with my main desktop computer, which just so happens to have an ECS K7VZA Version 3 motherboard with the BIOS revision 3.6a. You'd think it would take what seems to be a normal PS/2 keyboard, right? Wrong! I can't hot-swap and use it, and I also can't cold boot it and have the keyboard work. The BIOS will always give me a "keyboard error or no keyboard present" message. Absolutely terrible.

I must use this keyboard. If anyone has any ideas short of buying a new motherboard about how to make it work, then let me know. Please?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Cerb]

Well, you could always try a PS/2 to big old thang to PS/2 adapater and see if it works
Also, you could try a USB to PS2 mouse/keybaord gizmo (plugs into a USB and you plug a PS/2 keyboard or mouse into it and it functions as a USB keybaord or mouse), which would be easier to find.
I hope you get it working, 'cause I don't know what I would do if I didn't have my IBM Model M (I sure wouldn't be gaming, I can say that much!).

Here one is

 

[Peter]

You're not supposed to hot swap on PS/2 connectors. This may permanently damage keyboard and/or mainboard. Those ancient plugs just aren't made for that.

So if it isn't dead now, chances are that it draws too much power. (Or does it still have an XT/AT switch on its underside? Check that!)