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Spin_Dr_Wolf 6,170 posts
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Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDjini wrote:Whizzo... Don't play "Who's got the biggest IT dick out of the two of us?" with me...
Nah I don't think there's any question who's the biggest dick around here.
Oh and Compaq PCs don't work like that as I just tried one to see if I was going senile or things had progressed with PS/2 connections, as it's a work's PC I wasn't too bothered if anything bad happened, quelle surprise it didn't work... -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDjini wrote:
LOL... I've done this hundreds of times. It's one of the few ports at the back of your comp that you can get the wrong way around (ie Mouse into KB port, and visa versa)
Its never worked for me. I'm constantly switching PCs but keeping the KVM bits. -
1. Whizzo. Bak read what I said. I said I seem to recall that Compaq server do not allow this which is the same as your findings. Now try it on a different PC...
2. ssuellid... It works if you turn on the PC with the KB in eitehr port. depends on your KVM though. The cheap/old ones require you are switched onto that connection WHEN YOU TURN ON THE PC, otherwise, it doesn't find anything. moden KVMs have 'keep alive' functions so if you boot up a PC without the KVM switched to it, it'll still keep those ports alive and the PC will recognise a KB and Mouse being attached (basic KB and mouse - try this with a Scroll and tilt one and it won't work!). These smart KVMs however reply on a KB being in the correctly labeled port as the keep alive tells the PC a basic KB is in the KB port and the mouse is in the other....
3. Spin... Did it POST? Did it blow up? Exactly. Boot it up wit the KB in the mouse port and press F12 (or del or whatever) to getinto your BIOS... Press your caps lock and num lock... You see the lights going on and off?
Also, you're declaring that I must be wrong because you tested this on a PC that doesn't recognise a KB on a KB port either?
Try it on a PC that works...
...Or don't... Wallow in you own ignorance... I know it works... If you don't want to believe this or tell everyone else on here it doesn't why should I care? -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDjini I didn't say KVM switch.
Just my keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) I'm manually unplugging and plugging back in. Its something I do at least a couple of times a day for a good few years on all sorts of PCs from embedded boards, cheap clones, and Dells. The keyboard has never worked in the mouse port or the mouse in the keyboard port. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt was a desktop PC not a server, the only "PCs" I've ever encountered that allow you to use either device in the PS/2 port is a laptop as they tend to only have one so you get to choose which one to plug in.
For Christ's sake I'm not arguing the point to prove I've got a big "IT dick", it's just that in all the PCs I've worked on plugging a PS/2 device into the wrong port means it won't work. -
ssue.. Sorry about that...
Whizzo... I've just been reading SO many instances of people plugging in their KB into the mouse port to test KB, test the mouse port, and other stuff)... Just do a search yourself...
I can't fathom why the IBM PC I just tried, and the Dell I just tried before, the Abit NF7-S mobo at home, and the MSI one it replaced, AND just about every Gateway box I used to look after back in the day would let me plug a keyboard into either port and work, but not a mouse, yet for ALL PCs you've done this to, and you've been doing this for YEARS, it won't POST, or might blow up your Ports?!?!?!
I mean, this is *so* opposite, it defies explaination.
My Only theory is you tried this without turning off the PC... -
Whizzo wrote:
It was a desktop PC not a server, the only "PCs" I've ever encountered that allow you to use either device in the PS/2 port is a laptop as they tend to only have one so you get to choose which one to plug in.
For Christ's sake I'm not arguing the point to prove I've got a big "IT dick", it's just that in all the PCs I've worked on plugging a PS/2 device into the wrong port means it won't work.
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Whizzo wrote:
It was a desktop PC not a server, the only "PCs" I've ever encountered that allow you to use either device in the PS/2 port is a laptop as they tend to only have one so you get to choose which one to plug in.
I have seen some cheapo PC World PC's which allow you to plug the keyboard into the mouse port and have it work, but they also only have 1 PS/2 slot. Other than that, the usual effect is a POST beep error.
As for the problem... I have seen it before. Usually it depends on what was chosen as the keyboard during the Windows upgrade \ installation. If thats the case I suspect re-installing the keyboard might work (only saw it twice, and both times I had to re-install windows for other problems).
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