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PCI USB/PS/2 cards in Windows NT

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First post, by soviet conscript

Posted on 2015-05-05, 02:51

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I starting putting together and setting up a Pentium Pro machine with Windows NT 4.0 as the OS. My motherboard is an older style board with and AT keyboard. I've found that for whatever reason I cant get serial mice to work. they just aren't being detected in either serial port. I say those PCI PS/2 & USB combo cards on eBay for pretty cheap and they claim to be NT compatible. anyone think they will give me issues?

Reply 1 of 4, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-05-05, 02:55

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Does the BIOS support PS/2 emulation? AFAIK there is no such thing as PS/2 in a card, those things are pure USB cards with some PS/2->USB active adapter on board. Without BIOS support you'll need specific drivers for that card (if they even exist), as NT4 does not support USB.

Reply 2 of 4, by soviet conscript

Posted on 2015-05-05, 03:44

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alexanrs wrote:
Does the BIOS support PS/2 emulation? AFAIK there is no such thing as PS/2 in a card, those things are pure USB cards with some PS/2->USB active adapter on board. Without BIOS support you'll need specific drivers for that card (if they even exist), as NT4 does not support USB.

Ah, yhea. looking through the BIOS it looks like it does indeed support USB as I found an option to enable/disable USB controller and the same option for USB keyboard.

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Posted on 2015-05-05, 03:49

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You might try just plugging the USB mouse and see if it gets detected as a PS/2 pointing device

Reply 4 of 4, by soviet conscript

Posted on 2015-05-05, 04:19

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that's the thing. there aren't any ps/2 or USB ports. just 2 serial and a an AT port. looks like there may be a header on the board to hook up a PS/2 and USB but I figured getting a PCI card may be easier then tracking down a random ps/2 or USB header thing and hoping its the right pinout for this board.

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