Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:34:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton) Cc: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easier mouse revival technique? Message-ID: <200007211434.JAA57955@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <39773010.FA0E0EDF@gorean.org> from Doug Barton at "Jul 20, 2000 10:00:00 am"
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Doug Barton babbled: > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:00:00 -0700 > From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > Today my mouse was unplugged, and when I plugged it back in, it didn't > > work. > > You shouldn't hot plug mice or keyboards on a PC. You can burn out the > controllers. If the mouse comes unplugged while the machine is on, you > should turn the machine off before you plug it back in. That may be true for desktops (I don't know), but I don't believe it to be true for notebooks. It's at least my undrstanding that Dell notebooks are protected from such damage. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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