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Old 04-18-2018, 06:46 AM   #1
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USB to PS/2 Keyboard Mouse Adapter Converter Cable works


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9SIA6705VF9929

Surprisingly works well.
At first, my dell ps2 keyboard did not want to fit their plug, but it does fit, took some force, then it slid together fine. The inner rectangular alignment pin was bigger on the Dell keyboard than the slotted hole in the adapters plug. Looking at other keyboards, their rectangular pin is smaller, so DELL did something funny.

Testing on Mint 18.3, at first worked from a cold boot, seeing the drivers have to load? Then did not work on a warm reboot, saw a message saying could not configure device, then after that it works every time hot or cold boot-rebooting.

It does not work in the bios settings, does that make sense? Otherwise it is nice as I can use a nice ps2 keyboard I have.
This one has an active chip. The not working in bios for me is not a problem as the PC is in a boat at the end of a 20 foot long usb cable. I can always plug the PS2 keyboard into the ps2 mb port at the boat. I ran a 16foot usb wire to a usb hub up at the helm, and it was simpler to just use one wire for mouse, keyboard, gps, whatever is needed at the hub. etc...

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Old 04-18-2018, 08:23 PM   #2
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If you enable 'Legacy USB' in the BIOS setup it should work better with the USB adapter.
 
Old 04-19-2018, 01:14 PM   #3
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Some residual power being left in device or the device isn't fully resetting or some issue with usb slot would be a guess.

It is possible that setting legacy or other usb setting would work on a real usb keyboard but I'd think that this is still a usb device not the same as a usb keyboard so bios use could be an issue

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Old 04-27-2018, 02:48 AM   #4
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I tried on the PC at the boat, an intel based board, and it works in the bios.
Actually I am very impressed with the thing working this well.

I was testing it on an AMD Asus board and it did not work in the bios, however that board had major problems and it finally died.
 
  


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