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hyiu:
I'm currently running XP on a AMD 1.1G machine...

I have a USB cable plugged with nothing... (and I use this loose end to attach my digi cam... so USB... no pblm...)

I hacked gameport sidewinders... and I can plug and unplug them.... (after boot up) and XP will detect them correctly....
(no need for them to be plugged at boot time....)
(although if you daisy chain gameport controls... order is not guaranteed...)
I'm using Mame32 front end and I'll need to restart Mame32 to use the gamepad hack... (not  restarting windows... just mame32..)

and for the PS2 mouse.... my mobo is... when you boot... if you don't plug mouse... then you have no mouse... (assuming you bypassed the keyboard mouse check and let it boot...) if you plug the ps2 mouse in after everything is booted.... the mouse will NOT be detected.....

I have had times when I have booted normally (everything conencted...) then in Windows... (XP) unplug and replug the mouse... (but not for long.... less than a minute...) and things are fine.... no pblm....

hope this helps....

 ;) ;D

Silver:
Basically there is no harm in connecting/disconnected any of the devices at any time - I've never seen any blown keyboards or such like.

The point about connecting PS2 devices after boot and then disconnecting/reconnecting is significant. KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) switches have special (but simple?) circuits in them so that all the pc's connected to them think they have a permanently connected keyboard/mouse. (The pc's you are not using simply think there is no user input from the mouse/keyboard).  I imagine it is a relatively simple thing (voltage/resistance across a couple of the pins on a PS/2 connector. I believe you can hot plug keyboards into ipacs/keywhiz's so a closer look at one of those may help?
paigeoliver:
Ok, it all sounds good then.

I didn't plan on hot swapping ANYTHING. I just wanted it all on a single connection, so I (and other people) where not reaching around in the back of the cabinet fumbling to make connections.

I am using a JAMMA harness because, I have several, and the fingerboards are cheap.
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