Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6 |
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Actually, on a lot of hardware, inserting on removing a PS/2 mouse or keyboard > while powered-on can fry the keyboard controller chip on the motherboard. > It will work 99 times out of 100, but every so often the hardware will blow up. > I've seen over a dozen machines fried this way over the years.
Intresting... Just recently we connected a ps2 mouse and keyboard to an LX MB through a mechanical switch and switched it several hundred times. No problems.
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