Re: unexplained keyboard crashes

Roeland Th. Jansen (roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:23:48 +0000


On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:41:59PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 12:10:23PM +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> > resetting the keyboard (unplug/reconnect) doesn't work either -- the leds
> > flash once, as usual.
>
> Be careful when doing it with a PS2 connector. You might burn your PS2
> keyboard port. Really poor hardware design.

it's a standard DIN type connector/port. however, thanks for the tip. it may
be handy whenever the girlfriend needs to be told that a new MB is required
:-)

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