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First post, by Joakim

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I have an 5ali61 board but not the original IO back plates. I found it very hard to find any ps/2 connector plates. Only something proprietary like this for around 30 $...

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I ended up buying some loose ps2 connectors from China which I at some point will fixate to a back plate. I have not come around to it so at the moment I have a mouse with an usb2ps2 connector connected in a not so secure manner... It (usually) works though! 😀

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Do you have any similar solutions that you are less proud of? 😀

Reply 1 of 1, by Miphee

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I use a cheap chinese external SATA-USB adapter because I don't want to spend money on an external HDD case and it's easier to swap drives this way.
The unit came with a shoddy 12V/5V adapter so I use internal power instead. Ugly but works.

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