[GRLUG] Will adapters do the job?

[Eric Beversluis]

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.

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.

Thanks for the replies.

On 08/24/2014 02:00 PM, Joseph McLaughlin wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>
>     If the numlock key is responsive and the network/hd lights are
>     working, you can be sure the box is on and probably working.
>
>     HID is a stupid acronym for human interface device.
>
>     I think ps is peripheral serial, but I'm wrong more often than not.
>
>
>     -j
>
>     --
>     Right to Life of Michigan
>     Director of Information Services
>     616.446.6492 / jdenick at rtl.org <mailto:jdenick at rtl.org>
>
>     On Aug 23, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Eric Beversluis
>     <ebever at researchintegration.org
>     <mailto:ebever at researchintegration.org>> wrote:
>
>>     On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 21:39 -0400, Justin Denick wrote:
>>>     Slax will start anything.
>>
>>     Regardless of BIOS boot order settings?
>>
>>>     But I do recall some optiplexes being picky about not using ps2
>>>     hid's
>>     ('hid's'?)
>>>
>>>     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?
>>
>>>
>>>     If it's sat for too long you may need to replace the battery on
>>>     the board.
>>
>>     If it comes to that I'll just pull the HDD and figure a different
>>     way to
>>     test it and wipe it if necessary.
>>>
>>>     -j
>>>
>>>
>>>     --
>>>
>>>     Right to Life of Michigan
>>>     Director of Information Services
>>>     616.446.6492 / jdenick at rtl.org <mailto:jdenick at rtl.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>>     On Aug 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Eric Beversluis
>>>>     <ebever at researchintegration.org
>>>>     <mailto:ebever at researchintegration.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     I've got an old Dell Optiplex GS110 I'm trying to start up
>>>>     (after it has
>>>>     sat for many years) to check what's on the HDD before scrapping it.
>>>>
>>>>     I tried using USB-to-PS/2 adapters for the USB mouse and
>>>>     keyboard and a
>>>>     VGA flatscreen monitor and got nothing. Should that setup work
>>>>     or could
>>>>     the adapters or the flatscreen monitor be the problem?
>>>>
>>>>     If that setup won't work, I'll probably just have to pull the
>>>>     HDD and
>>>>     check it out on a Linux box. I'm guessing that a computer of that
>>>>     vintage won't boot from a live CD or USB, especially if I can't
>>>>     get in
>>>>     to change the boot order in BIOS.
>>>>
>>>>
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