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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:38:08 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
To:        adrian@ubergeeks.com, dennis@etinc.com, garbanzo@hooked.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's
Message-ID:  <199907232138.OAA01710@vip.consys.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907232126.RAA17158@etinc.com>

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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. 

<blush>
I fried two P6 ASUS motherboards this way, sorta along these lines, 
"hmm, keyboard seems to be dead, maybe try it in this machine"

Russell


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