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| Thread ID: 41137 | 2003-12-31 11:56:00 | Keyboard socket is shot... solution??? | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 204458 | 2003-12-31 11:56:00 | The keyboard socket on my motherboard is had-it, so it seems. How can I get around this, as I can't always use my keyboard upon starting the PC (it was doing this a while back, then it started working again for ages... now its doing it again). Sometimes if I restart the machine it'll work fine, other times it doesn't work at all. Will a PS/2 to USB converter work on a keyboard (if there's such a thing)? I'm not really that keen on buying a new USB keyboard as this is my secondary machine and I can't be bothered spending any money on it. Help?!?! Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 204459 | 2003-12-31 11:58:00 | I know somebody will ask me, so I had better add: OS is irrelevant :) Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 204460 | 2003-12-31 12:24:00 | This is kind of irrelevant, but my previous motherboard had a similar problem. It started off perfectly fine, but then sometimes the mouse (connected to the PS/2 port) would stop working for a while, rendering my computer useless to me (less useless than without a keyboard though :D). All it was was something about the PS/2 port, it never did that for the keyboard, and suffice to say, I got rid of that motherboard after dropping my graphics card on it (which caused the motherboard to not work at all). I think it's been raised here before about buying PS/2 to USB converters (or the other way around), and the conclusion was that the support to use one of these had to be built into the device (I can't remember if someone tried this to find out, or if it was just technical knowledge, etc). |
agent (30) | ||
| 204461 | 2003-12-31 12:29:00 | I wonder if the mouse and keyboard ports are interchangeable? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 204462 | 2003-12-31 12:32:00 | That probably depends on what you mean ;) If you want to try plugging your keyboard into the mouse PS/2 socket, I wouldn't advise that... but perhaps physically switching the connectors around might work (though with the micro-circuitry and all that sort of stuff, it would prove very hard!). |
agent (30) | ||
| 204463 | 2003-12-31 12:39:00 | > If you want to try plugging your keyboard > into the mouse PS/2 socket, I wouldn't advise that Why not? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 204464 | 2003-12-31 12:42:00 | Well I've got rubbish technical knowledge of the wiring of how an OS interacts with the motherboard, but I would assume that if something is plugged into the PS/2 port for mice, the OS would try to detect it as a mouse. But considering your computer uses keyboards before an OS is even loaded, perhaps it detects it on a hardware level? I think I've now confuzzled myself, but, er, the motherboard itself would detect only keyboards on the keyboard PS/2 port and vice versa. This is beyond my knowledge, of course... perhaps someone with the knowledge will come along, or Google might provide some answers. |
agent (30) | ||
| 204465 | 2003-12-31 12:50:00 | I found the following from Google (www.google.co.nz r+mice&hl=en&ie=UTF-8): are you sure you are plugging it into the keyboard ps2 slot, it may sound stupid, but it once happened to me, i mean, i just groped my way to the first ps2 slot, when i found it i assumed it was the keyboard one, but it wasn´t. Anyway, have you tried with another keyboard? |
agent (30) | ||
| 204466 | 2003-12-31 19:37:00 | > are you sure you are plugging it into the > keyboard ps2 slot, it may sound stupid, > but it once happened to me, i mean, i just groped my > way to the first ps2 slot, when i found it > i assumed it was the keyboard one, but it wasn´t. > Anyway, have you tried with another keyboard? Good point - what about buying a cheap USB keyboard? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 204467 | 2003-12-31 19:52:00 | > are you sure you are plugging it into the > keyboard ps2 slot, Quite sure. > Anyway, have you tried with another keyboard? 5 other keyboards :) Mike. |
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