Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:21:04 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's Message-ID: <199907232126.RAA17158@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231032580.3253-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.c om> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907222011550.284-100000@localhost>
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At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >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. I've seen it on an SBC (with a KB connector on board). it IS a problem if they want to do maintanence without bringing down the system. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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