booting with no keyboard but then need to plug one in

[Richy]

Thanks in advance.

We have webservers which boot up with no keyboard and mouse.

Then if one breaks we may need to wheel keyboard and mouse round with a
monitor to have a look at it. But if the OS has already booted with no
keyboard in you can't use it with out rebooting it with it in.

Someone told me there is a registry entry which tells it to load the
keyboard amd mouse drivers even if there is not one present. Does anyone
know what it is?

Regards

Richy

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks in advance.

We have webservers which boot up with no keyboard and mouse.

Then if one breaks we may need to wheel keyboard and mouse round with a
monitor to have a look at it. But if the OS has already booted with no
keyboard in you can't use it with out rebooting it with it in.

Someone told me there is a registry entry which tells it to load the
keyboard amd mouse drivers even if there is not one present. Does anyone
know what it is?

Regards

Richy

Much simpler: Plug in a USB keyboard & mouse!

 

[Richy]

Problem is the location where my servers are is in a internet hosting centre
and they only have a ps2 k/b and mouse on the trolley. I can't really tell
them to use a USB one when I log a support call.

Regards

Richy

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

It seems you have to decide between buying a cheap USB keyboard
& mouse, or rebooting the machine.

 

[James Barley]

Having just read this thread, I had to try something, the good news is
it worked.
I dug out a PS2 mouse and plugged it into my running system, then went
into device manager, right clicked on a piece of hardware,(doesn't
matter which), in my case it was "Drives", and then selected "Scan for
new hardware", windows found the new mouse and successfully activated it.

Try it, it should work for you also.

James.

 

[Bob I]

Word of warning on hotplugging PS/2 ports. The hardware was not designed
for this so you may shorten the port/motherboard life expectancy by
doing this.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

You lucked out. Don't try it again; PS/2 ports often fry from doing just
that. I've seen it happen more than a few times.

Steve