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KenToad:
I just checked at my local Radio Shack and they had this adaptor.  I have a keywiz eco and a hacked ps2 mouse spinner for my desktop control panel and I can't get the ps2 connections to be hot swappable.  I hate to spend another twenty bucks on yet another piece of hardware for my already pricey retrogaming hobby.  Of course, they'll take it back within thirty days, but it doesn't say anything about being hot swappable and the salesman had no idea.  Anybody try this one out?

KenToad
Tiger-Heli:
See my comments in this thread.

BTW, why can't you hot-swap the KeyWiz Eco.  I do that all the time with no problems.
KenToad:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 11, 2005, 09:46:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Dougmeister on April 11, 2005, 09:23:26 am ---From personal experience, I had problems with a USB adapter on a PS/2 keyboard on my KeyWiz.

IIRC, the toggle switch stopped working and a few other quirky things.  Took the USB dongle off and the problems went away.

Not your *exact* situation, but thought it might be helpful.

--- End quote ---
Well, from personal experience, I had problems with a USB adapter on a PS/2 Keyboard without the KeyWiz.

Yes, I use a KeyWiz.  Yes, I was too cheap to buy a USB keyboard, and bought a PS/2-USB adapter (also avoided having to explain why I needed a different keyboard when nothing was wrong with the other one.)  Yes, I have had others verify that the problems I was seeing did not occur with a true USB keyboard.

Adapter was a QVS brand from MicroCenter, but I'm not sure that matters.

Problems - Keyboard will stop typing shifted keys if you hold down the shift button and type.

(From before I got the KeyWiz) - I was playing BattleZone.  If I held down the "I" key the entire time, the tank would spin left (actually move forward and turn left).  Then if I pressed the "D" key it would spin left faster.  So far so good.  Now if I release the "D" key, the tank will spin slowly left and then stop.  (It should keep spinning because the "I" key was still held down.  Does not happen with the regular PS/2 keyboard.  Was able to verify the same behavior in Notepad.  RandyT verified this does not happen with a true USB keyboard.

Also, I sometimes get an apparent "Stuck key" when I first hot-swap the KeyWiz into the system.  Doesn't always happen, hasn't happened lately, not sure if it's related.

 


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Tiger-Heli,

Hmm, I'll check it out again.  I tried several times, I believe, probably doesn't depend on computer specs.   I'm a little bit confused about your post in the other thread.  Also, do you still sometimes get the stuck key when you hot-swap the KeyWiz?  I'll probably get the usb adaptor either way, since the laptop doesn't have ps2 ports.  Thanks for the quick reply.

kenToad
NinjaEpisode:
Was actually going to borrow one of these from work and test it with my PS2 Spinner since my trackball is PS2 as well and see if I can get the spinner to be recognized at the same time.
2600:
Tiger_Heli,
I think this is like one of the only areas where I disagree with you and wish you would put a disclaimer when you say this. 

Being a Hardware guy you can not hot swap a PS/2 connection.  Now hold on before, you say I've done it seventy times and never had a problem, remember there is a difference between saying I've done it seventy times and actually the spec allowing it.  In the olden days, if you hot swapped a PS/2 connection you were likely to blow a fuse and you'd have a dead motherboard.  Recent motherboards are more forgiving, and I've seen it done on many PC's, but electrically it's not "wise" and it's not designed to operate that way.  I always get the users who say I've done it a hundred times before, but it's that one time out of a hundred and it doesn't work that totally stumps them.  Which is why I disagree with you on this one point,  but only because many users may take your words as truth and may not be as savvy which would leads to frustration on their part if not worst, a dead MB.

I'd love to see one of the manufacturers for these boards step up and say something about it, but not sure if they will.  In any case, I bet the response is we've done testing and it's worked for us, but it isn't designed to do this.
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