[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Joseph McLaughlin]

Did you need to borrow ps2 mouse and keyboard?

 



On Saturday, August 23, 2014 11:46 PM, Mark Farver <mfarver at mindbent.org> wrote:
 


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.
On Aug 23, 2014 10:14 PM, "Justin Denick" <jdenick at rtl.org> wrote:

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. 
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>If the numlock key is responsive and the network/hd lights are working, you can be sure the box is on and probably working. 
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>HID is a stupid acronym for human interface device. 
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>I think ps is peripheral serial, but I'm wrong more often than not. 
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>On Aug 23, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
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>On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 21:39 -0400, Justin Denick wrote:
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>>Slax will start anything.
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>>Regardless of BIOS boot order settings?
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>>But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2 hid's 
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>>How much nothing do you get--BIOS, POST, noise, numlock?
>>>I did get two beeps during POST, HDD sounds like it's working, and there
>>was a light on the keyboard, don't remember if it was the numlock. So
>>maybe the ps/2 adapters are ok. Would the flatscreen monitor rather than
>>CRT cause a problem?
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>>If it's sat for too long you may need to replace the battery on the board. 
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>>If it comes to that I'll just pull the HDD and figure a different way to
>>test it and wipe it if necessary.
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>>-j
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>>On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
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>>I've got an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm trying to start up (after it has
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>>sat for many years) to check what's on the HDD before scrapping it.
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>>I tried using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the USB mouse and keyboard and a
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>>VGA flatscreen monitor and got nothing. Should that setup work or could
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>>the adapters or the flatscreen monitor be the problem?
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>>If that setup won't work, I'll probably just have to pull the HDD and
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>>check it out on a Linux box. I'm guessing that a computer of that
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>>vintage won't boot from a live CD or USB, especially if I can't get in
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>>to change the boot order in BIOS.
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