On 2/20/2012 7:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote:
I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2
sockets for keyboards.
I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards lately and I seem to
recall models without PS/2, but you are probably right about full-sized
ATX boards.
I had a Dell 5150 desktop at work about 5 years ago, and it didn't have
any PS/2 ports. So they are out there!
-Rob
Several folks have already said that running a keyboard thru an adapter
to a USB port
can be a problem. I second that. I have a Dell Inspiron 5400/E1505
that I have been
running with an IBM model M shortened external keyboard (no numberpad)
thru a
PS2 to USB adapter. It runs fine once it starts, but on turn-on from
cold, the USB plug
must be momentarily removed and replaced in order for the computer to
fully access
the k/b. It will see some letters but not others. Since the k/b can be
switched (some-
how) to have a phantom numberpad on the right-hand letter keys, I think
it comes up
that way, altho the keys don't produce numbers--they produce nothing.
After the
plug game, the k/b works fine, and I never used a numberpad anyway--all
my boards
have numbers on the top row--don't all of them?
--doug
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