Johnny B Good wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:48:22 -0600, . wrote:

On 2/6/2017 12:02 PM, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 07:51:05 -0500, Paul wrote:

Norm X wrote:
"mike" wrote
I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems.
Changing the battery fixed it.
Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries
which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I
guess RF consumes more energy. Then I powered up the mouse for Win10
to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to
down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10.
You can see that laundry-lists of sins are known for Win10.
I wouldn't believe some of them, unless I had experienced them first
hand. I think I've had a RealTek audio package installed separately,
and don't recollect the HID subsystem falling over on me.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally...-mouse-issues/
My problems just seem to be more random. Like, if I rebooted six
times, sometimes a mouse would disappear. I don't recollect my serial
(RS232) test mouse disappearing, ever. It always seems to work. I
don't have a PS/2 mouse port available,
but I'm pretty sure if I had one, it would always work too.
"If it's flaky, it's USB" is my motto.

Excellent "Motto", Paul! :-)

I always thought it was extremely arrogant of Dell to assume that
'mission critical' interfaces such as the PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
could be replaced by USB ports and totally done away with.

USB3 has the chance to become equal to the task of 'mission critical'
reliability embodied by such interfaces as serial, parallel, PS/2,
SCSI, IDE and SATA ports given enough time to reach maturity since,
unlike its brain-dead predecessors (USB1 and USB2), it isn't relying on
the CPU to shag itself out handling every tiny detail of the PIO task
such cheap 'n'
nasty interfaces heaped upon a poor defenceless CPU as a ruse to sell
more powerful Intel CPUs to the consuming masses.
The lower voltage USB is far superior to PS/2 for both keyboard and
mouse control. Perhaps you'd also like to bring back serial mice, single
core processors, the AT PS and 8 bit ISA standard.

The only *one* out of that list that I'd like to see rightfully restored
to its place on a modern motherboard would be the 8 bit ISA standard as
part of the 16 bit ISA slot standard (which may still reside within
today's chipsets for all I know - it certainly existed in the chipsets
used on post millenium MoBos which had merely lost the connectors to
begin with - the 16 bit ISA slot support may or may not still exist in
today's chipsets after all this time).

There were PCI to ISA bridge chips. Just as today, there
are PCI Express to PCI bridges, so we can have a PCI slot
on an Intel chipset motherboard. Intel removed PCI from the
Southbridge (PCH), but the motherboard makers put it back.
Only some high end gamer motherboards are pure PCI Express.

(A PCI to ISA bridge)
http://www.ite.com.tw/uploads/produc...9_05162005.pdf

Paul