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First post, by Maraakate

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Hello all,

I have an Asus P3B-F v1.04 motherboard I've had for a number of years. At some point a few years ago the PS/2 ports started acting up. I switched over to a serial mouse and USB legacy support for the keyboard, but I'd like to fix it if possible. Whenever I plug a PS/2 keyboard in after it gets past the RAM count it just starts beeping as if someone held a key down. If you pull the cable out of the PS/2 then it's fine. I've tried spraying some contact cleaner in the port but made no difference.

I'm guessing at this point it would be a filtering capacitor or pull-down resistor or something like that near that area that would be bad. Not sure where to go next.

The board works fine otherwise it's just annoying.

Reply 1 of 3, by quicknick

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Could be the (in)famous C151 problem: Re: Keyboard not working

Reply 2 of 3, by Maraakate

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Interesting, will try and desolder it and see if it works.

Reply 3 of 3, by Maraakate

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You the man, brother. Working great now. Figured it was some filtering cap like that. Assuming it will be fine and that was probably there for some FCC and EFI compliance.