Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231032580.3253-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907222011550.284-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a > > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard. > > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property > > of the board. > > If this is a PS/2 style keyboard, don't plug and unplug them when the host > is powered up. The PS/2 style stuf seems to be very sensitive to that > sort of thing. If it was a USB keyboard doing that... then that would be > odd. Yes, it is a PS/2 keyboard, but these are the only MB's that I have run into this problem with other than some AIX boxes years ago that would blow a fuse when disconnecting the keyboard from a running system. This isn't that big a problem. I only have keyboard installed while building the systems. Thereafter they are serial console only. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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