[rescue] Best brains: Dead keyboard ports on PC hardware

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 09:47:30 CDT 2007


Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> That's worth a try.  I think I may have a PCI USB2.0 card around here
>> someplace, if I can just find it.  I thought of putting in a PCI PS/2
>> card if I could find such a thing, but was concerned that even if I
>> could, it might conflict with the existing failed hardware.  The USB
>> card idea might well work, though.
> 
> Oh ...   it just occurred to me that the problem here is until the USB
> card is "installed" by Windows, there'll be no way to respond to the
> dialogs Windows throws up in the course of installing it.

The PS/2 mouse doesn't work for that purpose?

Peace...  Sridhar



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