PS/2 Mouse.

[LokiFire]

Do you need to plug in anything PS/2 at bios boot? or is it plug and play? you see i found my old Gigabyte optical mouse, it's a really good mouse from years ago that i can keep as a spare in case my Logitech G303 fails me.

But i plugged it in and it does not work even though the laser is glowing bright red.

[swordsman247]

Ps2 ports needs to be plugged in before the pc is turned on

[LokiFire]

5 minutes ago, swordsman247 said:

Ps2 ports needs to be plugged in before the pc is turned on

Thank you just been a long time since i used PS/2 stuff.

[Aereldor]

12 minutes ago, swordsman247 said:

Ps2 ports needs to be plugged in before the pc is turned on

Really? I'm able to unplug and re-plug my PS/2 keyboard. In fact, I just did. It came right back on.

[swordsman247]

33 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Really? I'm able to unplug and re-plug my PS/2 keyboard. In fact, I just did. It came right back on.

If the system has already detected it at boot some ps2 devices can do that. And I think some newer ps2 ports can hot swap, but in general it doesn't work. Also mice are a lot more picky than keyboards most of the time.

[LokiFire]

1 minute ago, swordsman247 said:

If the system has already detected it at boot some ps2 devices can do that. And I think some newer ps2 ports can hot swap, but in general it doesn't work. Also mice are a lot more picky than keyboards most of the time.

I run a MSI 790FX-GD70 so it's quite a recent board with PS2 ports, i can hot swap once the bios has booted with it plugged in