Re: Unplugging/Re-connecting PS/2 mouse disables PS/2 keyboard.

Samuli Valo (samuliva@jymy.kase.fi)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:28:19 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Greg Wickham wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've got an ABIT BH6 and if I unplug the mouse (PS/2) and reconnect
> it the keyboard (PS/2) will no longer work. The only solution is
> a reboot.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?
>
No, we were not that lucky! Our (ex-)school had few computers with PS/2
mouse, and when we accidentally unplugged one, the machine crashed, and
never came back... It did blow up some fuse, and the computer had to be
send back to repair... It happened 2 times...

-- Samuli Valo (samuli.valo@kaustinen.fi)

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