On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:46:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Juan R. de Silva composed on 2016-04-26 01:26 (UTC): > >> On my desktop I still use and old keyboard with PS/2 connector. >> My mouse an USB one, so the mouse PS/2 port on motherboard remains >> free. > >> A couple of days ago I had to reconnect my keyboard to motherboard. I >> was doing it in hurry and in the dark, just to the touch. > > Plugging a PS/2 keyboard connector into a motherboard port while the PC > is powered up is a bad idea. Sometimes doing so can permanently render > the motherboard port useless. > >> A day later while restarting the machine I was surprised by message >> from BIOS:"No keyboard detected." However, when started, Debian had no >> trouble with my keyboard. It was fully functional. > > The Linux driver doesn't care which port the keyboard is plugged into. > The motherboard BIOS does care, hence the warning at boot. Plugged into > the wrong port, you can't use the keyboard to get into BIOS setup or > anything else you might wish to key before the PC boots an OS. > >> Today I had a minute to pull out my desktop tower and found that I >> mistakenly plugged keyboard connector into the mouse PS/2 port. > > Dejavu. There was a long thread almost a month ago here "Changing Boot > Order" > about using the wrong port. > >> I wish to see Windows trying to swallow this. :-) Or I am outdated on >> Windows skills, am I? > > ???
All you comments are correct and my funny experience proofs it. I was certainly lucky not to blow up my motherboard. Praise to ASUS. I've meant to say that as far as I know Windows would not be able to run keyboard connected so wrongly at all. Even if, like in my case, motherboard survived such a bad treatment.
