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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: boostrap on January 06, 2012, 10:41:49 pm

Title: ?990FXA-UD7 combo PS/2 on motherboard accepts keyboard AND mouse simultaneously?
Post by: boostrap on January 06, 2012, 10:41:49 pm

I just purchased a gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 motherboard (and other components like CPU, 3TB-HDD, 8GB DDR3 @ 2133MHz, etc) to upgrade my ubuntu Linux computer, which just died (won't boot into OS).

I have one PS/2 keyboard and one PS/2 mouse connected to a KDM switch that connects them to two computers (one with ubuntu linux and one with windoze) so I can switch back and forth easily and quickly.

I see my new 990FXA-UD7 motherboard has only one PS/2 connector, but it is two-colors and somewhere I think I read it is a "dual connector".  This makes me think there is some kind of PS/2 splitter cable that lets me plug both mouse and keyboard into one end of the cable, then plug the other end into this combo PS/2 port on the motherboard to connect both keyboard and mouse to the computer through this one combo PS/2 port.

Is this correct?  I assume so, since obviously a great many people with PS/2 input devices have both PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse.  But I'm not sure.  Please help!  I need to get this system running, but don't know what to do or buy (at the nearby Fry's, presumably).  Thanks for any help.

Title: Re: ?990FXA-UD7 combo PS/2 on motherboard accepts keyboard AND mouse simultaneously?
Post by: autotech on January 07, 2012, 01:32:34 am

You understand it right in one way but a tad wrong in the other. That ps2 port can be either a mouse or keyboard but not both at the same time. So it is a dual connector as in it works with either one but not both at the same time.

Title: Re: ?990FXA-UD7 combo PS/2 on motherboard accepts keyboard AND mouse simultaneously?
Post by: absic on January 07, 2012, 10:16:11 am

My understanding is the same as autotech's that it is an either or situation.

Usually I would use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse as you need the keyboard in BIOS and a PS/2 version always seems to work that little bit better than a USB keyboard.

Title: Re: ?990FXA-UD7 combo PS/2 on motherboard accepts keyboard AND mouse simultaneously?
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 07, 2012, 12:20:00 pm

I too would agree with the other posters. I have never tried to hook both keyboard and mouse up via an adapter but I don't think it would work. Again as far as I am concerned it is a choice of devices to be connected.