<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Did you need to borrow ps2 mouse and keyboard?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 11:46 PM, Mark Farver <mfarver@mindbent.org>
wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5225126100"><div><div dir="ltr">USB to PS/2 adapters will only work if the USB device supports emulating a ps2 device. Unless the adapter came with the device it probably won't work.</div>
<div class="yiv5225126100gmail_quote">On Aug 23, 2014 10:14 PM, "Justin Denick" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jdenick@rtl.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:jdenick@rtl.org">jdenick@rtl.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5225126100gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv5225126100yqt0440435480" id="yiv5225126100yqt49769"><div><div>If the LCD has a VGA port, it shouldn't matter. But if the video driver is very basic and the LCD is very high end, you could justify trying an older LCD or a snap in PCI just to see. </div><div><br clear="none">
</div><div>If the numlock key is responsive and the network/hd lights are working, you can be sure the box is on and probably working. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>HID is a stupid acronym for human interface device. </div><div>
<br clear="none"></div><div>I think ps is peripheral serial, but I'm wrong more often than not. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div><span style="font-size:13pt;">-j</span></div><div><div><div class="yiv5225126100MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;">
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</div></div></div></div><div><br clear="none">On Aug 23, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Eric Beversluis <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><span>On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 21:39 -0400, Justin Denick wrote:</span><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Slax will start anything.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Regardless of BIOS boot order settings?</span><br clear="none">
<span></span><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><span>But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2 hid's </span><br clear="none"></blockquote><span>('hid's'?)</span><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none">
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>How much nothing do you get--BIOS, POST, noise, numlock?</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><span>I did get two beeps during POST, HDD sounds like it's working, and there</span><br clear="none"><span>was a light on the keyboard, don't remember if it was the numlock. So</span><br clear="none">
<span>maybe the ps/2 adapters are ok. Would the flatscreen monitor rather than</span><br clear="none"><span>CRT cause a problem?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<span>If it's sat for too long you may need to replace the battery on the board. </span><br clear="none"></blockquote><span></span><br clear="none"><span>If it comes to that I'll just pull the HDD and figure a different way to</span><br clear="none"><span>test it and wipe it if necessary.</span><br clear="none">
<blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-j</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
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<span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric Beversluis <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:</span><br clear="none">
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I've got an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm trying to start up (after it has</span><br clear="none">
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>sat for many years) to check what's on the HDD before scrapping it.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I tried using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the USB mouse and keyboard and a</span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite"><span>VGA flatscreen monitor and got nothing. Should that setup work or could</span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>the adapters or the flatscreen monitor be the problem?</span><br clear="none">
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>If that setup won't work, I'll probably just have to pull the HDD and</span><br clear="none">
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>check it out on a Linux box. I'm guessing that a computer of that</span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">
<span>vintage won't boot from a live CD or USB, especially if I can't get in</span><br clear="none"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>to change the boot order in BIOS.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote>
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