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Thanks. I reconnected everything and now it's working nicely,
USB2ps/2 adapters and all. Probably just didn't have everything
quite right the first time. It's got Fedora Core 4 on it. So I'm
messing with it a bit before decommissioning. Gnome and Fedora were
significantly more simple and straightforward in those days--tho it
did take more geekness to operate them.<br>
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A shame to junk it--seems to work well yet. But I'm thinking
anything I wanted to do on it I could do on a raspberry pi and use a
small fraction of the electricity. So I'll probably give it to Good
Will or recycle.<br>
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Thanks for the replies.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/24/2014 02:00 PM, Joseph
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August 23, 2014 11:46 PM, Mark Farver
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<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
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<div class="yiv5225126100gmail_quote">On Aug 23,
2014 10:14 PM, "Justin Denick" <<a
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>HID is a stupid acronym for human
interface device. </div>
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<div>I think ps is peripheral serial, but
I'm wrong more often than not. </div>
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start anything.</span><br
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<span>Regardless of BIOS boot order
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>But I do
recall some optiplexes being picky
about not using ps2 hid's </span><br
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>How much
nothing do you get--BIOS, POST,
noise, numlock?</span><br
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<span>I did get two beeps during POST,
HDD sounds like it's working, and
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<span>was a light on the keyboard, don't
remember if it was the numlock. So</span><br
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<span>maybe the ps/2 adapters are ok.
Would the flatscreen monitor rather
than</span><br clear="none">
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<span>If it comes to that I'll just pull
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23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric
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an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm
trying to start up (after it has</span><br
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many years) to check what's on the
HDD before scrapping it.</span><br
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using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the
USB mouse and keyboard and a</span><br
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flatscreen monitor and got
nothing. Should that setup work or
could</span><br clear="none">
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adapters or the flatscreen monitor
be the problem?</span><br
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setup won't work, I'll probably
just have to pull the HDD and</span><br
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out on a Linux box. I'm guessing
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<span>vintage won't boot from a live
CD or USB, especially if I can't
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change the boot order in BIOS.</span><br
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