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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


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