New maiboard standard BTX has no PS2 connectors AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

My 2.34543783737 cents.

"We Live For The One We Die For The One" Mr wrote in
message ...


We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

My 2.34543783737 cents.
The 'classic' for annoyance in this regard, is that a lot of USB devices,
when attached for the first time, and 'spotted' by Windows P&P, put up a
screen, requiring you to press a key when the driver disk is inserted, and
then the USB bus in some cases is left locked. I have seen this with every
MS OS (including some of the newer Beta's), and if you are using a USB
keyboard/mouse, or a USB CD for the install, you are stuck!. The only
'getout', is that since most machines setup like this, support ACPI shutdown
from the power button, you can turn the machine off, and attach a PS/2
keyboard. On machines without this option, it'll be a real 'delight'...

Best Wishes

I had a few problems with USB mice keyboards, and went to PS2 and
STAYED their if they don't put PS2 on the new BTX boards i guess ill
have to give up buying new computers

I think ill go back to my Atari St it still works and i can play all
those games i missed and do my typing and all on 1 meg of ram and a
floppy




On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:52:36 -0000, "Roger Hamlett"
wrote:


"We Live For The One We Die For The One" Mr wrote in
message ...


We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

My 2.34543783737 cents.
The 'classic' for annoyance in this regard, is that a lot of USB devices,
when attached for the first time, and 'spotted' by Windows P&P, put up a
screen, requiring you to press a key when the driver disk is inserted, and
then the USB bus in some cases is left locked. I have seen this with every
MS OS (including some of the newer Beta's), and if you are using a USB
keyboard/mouse, or a USB CD for the install, you are stuck!. The only
'getout', is that since most machines setup like this, support ACPI shutdown
from the power button, you can turn the machine off, and attach a PS/2
keyboard. On machines without this option, it'll be a real 'delight'...

Best Wishes

We Live For The One We Die For The One wrote:
We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

How do you know you don't like it if you've never tried it? I stayed away
from USB Keyboard and Mouse 'cos DOS didn't support it... turned on Legacy
Keyboard Support and it's fine. Besides, I never use DOS any more.

Maybe we should completely halt the advance of computers in favour of Hard
disks with a maximum of 16Megs/s transfer speed, and floppy disks that are
360KB, and 640x480 graphics on monochrome displays... just because it'll be
"easier".

Or maybe we should move forwards by getting rid of crap legacy devices and
move towards a flexible, universal bus...

Could you imagine a motherboard that had every single connector ever used
since the inception of the personal computer? Would be a bit silly wouldn't
it?

Ben
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But fun, would love to see all that fitted onto a board they would
have to think alittle before designing though


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:58:06 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

We Live For The One We Die For The One wrote:
We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

How do you know you don't like it if you've never tried it? I stayed away
from USB Keyboard and Mouse 'cos DOS didn't support it... turned on Legacy
Keyboard Support and it's fine. Besides, I never use DOS any more.

Maybe we should completely halt the advance of computers in favour of Hard
disks with a maximum of 16Megs/s transfer speed, and floppy disks that are
360KB, and 640x480 graphics on monochrome displays... just because it'll be
"easier".

Or maybe we should move forwards by getting rid of crap legacy devices and
move towards a flexible, universal bus...

Could you imagine a motherboard that had every single connector ever used
since the inception of the personal computer? Would be a bit silly wouldn't
it?

Ben

USB keyboard/mouse work fine on modern boards and OSes (WinXP and Linux) in
my experience. The PS/2 ports on my P4B533 board have never had a single
thing plugged into them.

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"We Live For The One We Die For The One" Mr wrote in
message ...


We will be stuck with USB and when they wont work, no PS2 to save you.

I have never used USB for my Keyboard and or mouse and i don't like to
be forced to use USB either.

My 2.34543783737 cents.

Also you PC is faster with PS2, USB hogs so many resourses.


On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:49:54 GMT, "Robert Hancock"
wrote:

USB keyboard/mouse work fine on modern boards and OSes (WinXP and Linux) in
my experience. The PS/2 ports on my P4B533 board have never had a single
thing plugged into them.

We Live For The One We Die For The One wrote:
Also you PC is faster with PS2, USB hogs so many resourses.

USB does not use a significant amount of resources?

Everything you say is merely your uninformed opinion... you never back
anything up with even the smallest amount of reason.

Ben
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All i know with USB mouse and Keyboard my system is very slow, can
notice it alot, back to PS2 its response is fast, thus USB sucks,
easy.



On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:12:48 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

We Live For The One We Die For The One wrote:
Also you PC is faster with PS2, USB hogs so many resourses.

USB does not use a significant amount of resources?

Everything you say is merely your uninformed opinion... you never back
anything up with even the smallest amount of reason.

Ben

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:09:54 +1100, We Live For The One We Die For The
One Mr wrote:

All i know with USB mouse and Keyboard my system is very slow, can
notice it alot, back to PS2 its response is fast, thus USB sucks,
easy.

So you have a f***ed up machine and you then generalise about all USB
devices. You really demean your nickname.
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