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PS2 keyboard/mouse hot pluggable??
- Thread starter lupin
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Pepsi90919
Lifer
you can do it, in fact i just did it today.
Idiot56209
Senior member
jokeram is correct...
Keyboard yes. Mouse no. It has nothing to do with the OS. It's the fact that motherboards have native KBD bioses. There's no such thing as a "mouse BIOS" and the part needs to be plug and played and the drivers loaded at boot up. USB is different since it is "hot pluggable" by it's very nature, so those mice don't count in this question.
Keyboard Improv (Deep Purple)
Keyboard yes. Mouse no. It has nothing to do with the OS. It's the fact that motherboards have native KBD bioses. There's no such thing as a "mouse BIOS" and the part needs to be plug and played and the drivers loaded at boot up. USB is different since it is "hot pluggable" by it's very nature, so those mice don't count in this question.
Keyboard Improv (Deep Purple)
iamwiz82
Lifer
<< jokeram is correct...
Keyboard yes. Mouse no. It has nothing to do with the OS. It's the fact that motherboards have native KBD bioses. There's no such thing as a "mouse BIOS" and the part needs to be plug and played and the drivers loaded at boot up. USB is different since it is "hot pluggable" by it's very nature, so those mice don't count in this question.
Keyboard Improv (Deep Purple) >>
well, i just proved that wrong
I just unplugged my old PS/2 mouse and plugged it back in, still works.
Idiot56209
Senior member
ok... iamwiz.... Let me clarify... You can have it plugged in, unplug it and plug it back in again and THAT works. How do you think cheap switch boxes work?!?!
Unplug your mouse and restart. Tell me if your mouse works, ok?
lupin said "I thought they aren't supposed to be plugged into running computer", meaning one that is already running.
Also, lupin... There are a few instances of hot plugging keyboards frying boards due to the sudden jolt of juice coming through the KBD port. It's a lot of juice! So much that before USB, there were quite a few keyboard port powered devices (personally I have a joystick, 5 port hub and a bar code scanner).
Unplug your mouse and restart. Tell me if your mouse works, ok?
lupin said "I thought they aren't supposed to be plugged into running computer", meaning one that is already running.
Also, lupin... There are a few instances of hot plugging keyboards frying boards due to the sudden jolt of juice coming through the KBD port. It's a lot of juice! So much that before USB, there were quite a few keyboard port powered devices (personally I have a joystick, 5 port hub and a bar code scanner).