Filco PS2 Adaptor Not Working

[TurboDance]

Hi There,

Newish member. I purchased a new Filco Tenkeyless last year from Army Group, and was stoked to eventually try using the USB to PS2 adapter for better keyboard performance.  This year I upgraded my main PC and bought a board with a PS2 jack, but am having issues with making it work. The keyboard works fine when plugged into USB, but when I put the adapter on the keyboard does not detect in Windows. My last motherboard didn't have a P/S 2 port and I can't backcheck for issues this way.

Is this an issue with many PS2 adapters, or is it possible the issue is motherboard related? All drivers are installed. It's a Gigabyte G68X-UD3H-B3

Not a huge deal but it was a bit of a letdown when I saw that this wasn't going to work easily with plug and play. Maybe somebody has some insight. Thanks guys.

[WRXChris]

Hopefully your problem is that you didn't reset the computer.  USB is plug-n-play, which means that you can plug and unplug devices and they will sync/unsync automatically.  PS2 is not plug-n-play; you have to reset your computer in order for a PS2 device to sync with your motherboard.  Good luck!

[TurboDance]

Just to be clear, you have to plug in the keyboard with the PS2 jack and then upon restart it then detects? It's true, I did not try that; I guess am used to plug and play. I will restart right now and report back in  .

[TurboDance]

It worked! One more free USB port, and all of the internal capabilities of the Filco unlocked. Ohhh I'm happy!

[TotalChaos]

PS/2 rulez da scene 4eva 

[Soarer]

PS/2 rulez da scene 4eva 

... until full-speed USB takes over

[TheShining]

most modern mb's let you hotswap ps2 no problem.

[TheProfosist]

most modern mb's let you hotswap ps2 no problem.

that not what i have encountered...

most modern boards ive dealt with lately dont have PS/2

[daerid]

I've been using PS/2 since 1990, and I've never once been able to hot swap it on any board that has a ps/2 port.

[SmallFry]

I hot-swapped today, but I did have a keyboard plugged into the port before I swapped. I wonder of that made a difference.

[TotalChaos]

It worked! One more free USB port, and all of the internal capabilities of the Filco unlocked. Ohhh I'm happy!

Your Filco is now as good as my Rosewill. 

[daerid]

I hot-swapped today, but I did have a keyboard plugged into the port before I swapped. I wonder of that made a difference.

Absolutely. If the PS/2 port is already active, then you can hot swap. But if the port isn't activated at boot up, the mobo basically shuts it off.

[alaricljs]

Only mobos I've ever had that dealt with PS/2 hotswapping perfectly are in IBM systems... big surprise.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Only mobos I've ever had that dealt with PS/2 hotswapping perfectly are in IBM systems... big surprise.

I've crashed PCs from hotswapping PS/2

ADB on the Mac was hotswap-aware by design (the bus was scanned during something like every 30 VBL interrupts), but the circuitry was not hotswap-safe, so you were told not to EVER hotswap Mac keyboards and mice. I did, lots of times. Never blew anything up … ;-) (I broke everything else, but never killed a Mac through hotswapping)