On 26/4/16 13:09, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
I've meant to say that as far as I know Windows would not be able to run keyboard connected so wrongly at all. Even if, like in my case, motherboard survived such a bad treatment.
For what it's worth, Windows doesn't care either. If I'm not mistaken, even the BIOS doesn't really care - it just reports that the keyboard isn't plugged in where it expects it, but the message is usually something to the effect of:
Error: no keyboard found, press any keyAnd sure enough, you can hit that magical "any" key and it will sail right past the error.
This might be different depending on the board/bios, but in my years of PC support (back when linux users still opted for the PS/2 keyboard/mouse out of necessity) I never came across a board that didn't recognise the keyboard when plugged into the wrong port.