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Motherboard With One PS/2 Port

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by hawk22, 2011/04/10.

  1. 2011/04/10
    hawk22

    hawk22 Geek Member Thread Starter

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    Hi all, I am in need of some answers to a question I can not find answers for.
    I am presently shopping around for a new medium prized AM3 Motherboard.
    There are several good boards about like the Gigabyte:
    "GA880GA - UDH3" that has just about the measure of what I want, except one thing, only one PS/2 port, that on its own would normally be not of any big deal.
    But in my case, I use a 4 port PS/2 KVM switch, and I just don't know if my Belkin KVM would work with USB at the PC and a PS/2 adapter on the KVM end.
    I know of a fairly good AM3 board that has two PS/2 ports but only can run on DDR2 Ram, and I would like to make use of the DDR3 Ram that I already have.

    Any comments are welcome.
    hawk22

    I actually have found a good ASUS board with all three, USB3, 2xPS/2 and DDR3 Support
    ASUS M4A87TD - EVO
     
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  2. 2011/04/11
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    KVM switches can be flaky.
    PS2/USB adaptors can be flaky.

    Mix the two together and duck and run...
    On the other hand, it could work....but there is only one way to find out.

    EDIT: you could use the one port of the keyboard and this machine could have its own mouse if the KVM doesn't work.
     
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  4. 2011/04/11
    rsinfo

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    Most probably not.

    As Steve has already pointed out, try it or get a USB mouse for this computer.
     
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  5. 2011/04/14
    hawk22

    hawk22 Geek Member Thread Starter

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    thanks guys, some more googling has brought up a couple more hits, and the responses there confirm much the same as you have been saying.
    So I will stick with with the ASUS board that has 2 x PS/2 ports.
     
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