Re: Changing Boot Order -- Happiness!
On Sat 26 Mar 2016 at 22:44:36 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 26 March 2016 21:50:42 Felix Miata wrote:
> > As long as PS/2 ports have existed, it's unfathomable that BIOS makers
> > apparently still have not figured out how to have either port support a
> > keyboard at POST time. Instead, many, or maybe most, have taken to
> > providing only one, or none.
>
> I didn't know that the "wrong" one worked in the OS!! I last put the mouse in
> the keyboard one, and vice versa, in the days before they were colour coded,
> when such errors were almost inevitable, and the result was that neither
> worked in anything. So it didn't really matter, one just switched them
> round. Since then I have been fanatically careful - and the colours make it
> so easy. It is a revelation to me that a keyboard in the green PS2
> connection will work at all!!
It all depends on the age of the motherboard. Another facility that's
been around for years is running both a mouse and keyboard through a
single PS/2 socket with a Y-connector.
Cheers,
David.
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