On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:29:38AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > It's true that you're not supposed to mess with PS/2 connectors while the > machine is running, but I for the life of me cannot explain why. Other > than the keyboard being confused as to which lights (num lock, etc.) are > supposed to be lit, I have never suffered any ill effects. And even that > goes away the first time you actually press one of those keys...
It can fry the motherboard and/or whatever you're (un)plugging. The electronics in a PS/2 port are not particularly robust and are not designed with that sort of thing in mind. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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