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win98SE rig legacy USB glitch

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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2016-10-18, 22:03

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I have two rigs where I swap out the USB mouse and keyboard. One runs on win98SE and the other XP. Lately on the win98 rig I've been getting this PS/2 error upon boot up and the mouse/keyboard dead in the water. After a restart and scandisk it's ok. The boot up screen shows legacy USB active so can't pinpoint the issue. Maybe I need to turn the power supply on before plugging in the mouse/keyboard? I could just re-install the usb drivers but wanted to see if others have come across this first.

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Reply 1 of 1, by kanecvr

Posted on 2016-10-18, 22:28

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Win98 supports USB human interface devices out of the box, so they should work fine. Check BIOS to see if "assign IRQ for USB" is enabled.

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