17 Jun
2015
17 Jun
'15
3:57 p.m.
On Jun 17, 2015, at 10:50 , Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Here's a cute gotcha I hit this week:
- Have a running Windows 8.1 machine with PS/2 keyboard.
- Shut it down, start up with only USB keyboard.
- Shut down and boot again with PS/2 keyboard atached.
- Windows ignores it (although BIOS flashes lights normally, etc).
- Registry change (found by google) & reboot brings it back to life.
Can't imagine how many good keyboards were dumpster'd over that one.
Working in the GPS industry, I became all too familiar with how Windows can't tell the
difference between a Microsoft Serial BallPoint and a 4800 baud NMEA stream.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/