Sep 24, 2018 · It's a small dual-port USB HID-to-PS/2 converter that supports USB Keyboards, Mice and Game Controllers. That means you can connect a gamepad to your DOS PC and have it emulate a keyboard. This is (IMO) super useful for old games that don't support joysticks, or have limited support.

Nov 28, 2004 · In addition, the PS/2 port is approaching End of Life, so many manufactures start to shy away from it on their new designs. If the USB mouse is the only USB peripheral, it does not matter what you use. Otherwise, the PS/2 Mouse is much more stable. However using PS/2 takes an …

Aug 25, 2020 · Given your computer’s vintage, I’m going to guess that the reason there’s a single PS/2 port, intended for use with a mouse, is that its keyboard port is a 5-pin DIN connector as used in the IBM PC AT and its descendants. This was quite a common setup in the mid- to late nineties — most socket 7 motherboards were AT boards and included ...

Nov 27, 2001 · I would expect that any power that might have been diverted to the PS/2 ports, etc would be directed towards the extra USB ports. edit: just as a note, on most of the newer systems at home, both serial ports and the parallel port are disabled, and some/all of the IDE controllers in a few cases but the serial port has found use on one of the ...

I want to use my old PS/2 mouse & keyboard with my Dell Latitude, which has no PS/2 ports. I am fully aware that the easiest way to do this would to use an active PS/2 to USB converter , like this nice one from Amazon , learning this from reading it here on Tom's hardware forums , here on the Lenovo forums , here on alt windows 10 forums , and ...

Jan 3, 2013 · After my ps/2 mouse was giving problems I recently switched to using a wireless usb mouse. Now when that didn't suit me I wanted switch back to a ps/2 mouse. But the problem is that now when I attach the mouse to the ps/2 port, Windows does not detect it like it previously did. But when I connect a ps/2 keyboard to the ps/2 port it works fine.

Aug 6, 2013 · PS/2 keyboard devices are governed by a kernel-level service called i8042prt, short for the technical name for the PS/2 keyboard port. When a USB keyboard is added as a replacement for a PS/2 keyboard, the i8042prt service is forcibly disabled. This is to prevent a conflict between PS/2 and USB devices, but if a PS/2 keyboard is reinstalled ...

Jan 16, 2024 · As others are saying, they're passive adapters and, as these two pinout sites detail, they work by connecting the USB Data- line to the PS/2 Data line and the USB Data+ line to the PS/2 Clock line and relying on the mouse to recognize whether it's seeing PS/2 flow control signalling or the beginnings of a USB initialization handshake.

Jan 17, 2024 · So assuming the mouse/keyboard MCU gets power, it likely starts checking whether both wires are pulled up by the host which will mean it must be a PS/2 host port. If the MCU has a controllable pin for the 3.3V pull-up, it may keep it off and then having both data wires pulled low means this must be a USB host port and it can pull the DN line ...

Nov 28, 2010 · The PS2 splitters do not work on the Gigabyte boards. I tried two different brands. Neither worked. I ended up using the keyboard alone on the combo PS2 port and the PS2 mouse on the green side of a USB to PS2 adapter / splitter.