|At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
|>On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
|>
|>> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
|>>
|>> > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a
|>> > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a
|keyboard.
|>> > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property
|>> > of the board.
|>>
|>> If this is a PS/2 style keyboard, don't plug and unplug them when the host
|>> is powered up. The PS/2 style stuf seems to be very sensitive to that
|>> sort of thing. If it was a USB keyboard doing that... then that would be
|>> odd.
|>
|> Yes, it is a PS/2 keyboard, but these are the only MB's that I have
|>run into this problem with other than some AIX boxes years ago that would
|>blow a fuse when disconnecting the keyboard from a running system.
|>
|> This isn't that big a problem. I only have keyboard installed
|>while building the systems. Thereafter they are serial console only.
|
|I've seen it on an SBC (with a KB connector on board). it IS a problem if
|they want to do maintanence without bringing down the system.
<blush>
I fried two P6 ASUS motherboards this way, sorta along these lines,
"hmm, keyboard seems to be dead, maybe try it in this machine"
Russell
|
|Dennis
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