Re: no keyboard

[Doug Russell]

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Anything is possible, and I have heard of it happening at least
> once.  One of the other fun things about hot swapping keyboards
> is that you can actually damage the connector which can cause a
> short on the motherboard if the poor thing detaches then proceeds
> to relocate itself across some contacts.

Ahh yes...  Be very careful plugging in those little PS/2 connectors.
That's probably the cause of most burned hot-swapped keyboards.  :)

If you bend the pins by twisting, then get the wrong pin into the +5....
ZZzzzzzap..

Later......                                             <Doug>


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