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 | |Dennis | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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