First post, by ruthan
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- Oldbie
Hi,
i wonder there i quite a lot mainboard without PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, i have some even from 2012 from so HP office machines. These board often not even work with USB to PS/2 cables etc.. and there situation when USB is simply not working and you cant control machine remotely through network.. I can survive for some short task without mouse, but not without keyboard.
Recently i need to recover AMIBIOS for 2012 HP board with wrong bios flashed.. this procedure seems require press of CRTL+HOME/ PageUp/Down (WIN+B etc..) to start blind bios recovery from USB flashdisk or CD, but im unable to start it, probably because not working keyboard.. USB keyboard on machine was working at boot time when board booted normally, but when bios is broken, i suspect that keyboard is not working - I will probably make some thread about bios recovery later.
In description of these card is often driver free.. but also something like WIndow XP+, i wonder how it is wired, if genuine old PS/2 or its somehow glued and wired through PCI/PCI-E+USB controller and some virtual device emulation depending on working chipset drivers etc, or its just fake from the start. There is almost every time not close picture to main chip, to be able to read its label.
Does someone here own or used these cards are they realizable for Bios / UEFI, DOS / Win9x ?
I saw a lot of strange cheap HW from China, some seems simply that some Chinese company is placing random connectors on some card and such HW never can work.. They just made a batch, add it to eBay with fake reviews, under multiple accounts.. sele some batch of cards... account get disabled / deleted.. and few months later different account with new batch surface.
When you write seller, he will always tell you read description and that he cant test items.. Its even worse on ALien Express, here a never got response for any item question above.. and half of the items have simply false descriptions as standard market practice.
Im old goal oriented goatman, i care about facts and freedom, not about egos+prejudices. Hoarding=sickness. If you want respect, gain it by your behavior. I hate stupid SW limits, SW=virtual world, everything should be possible if you have enough raw HW.