Don't unplug that mouse!

[stickan]

Originally posted by JPicasso
Hey, a while back it was considered "bad form" to unplug a PS2 mouse from a computer that was running.

The consequences included "blowing a mouse port". Not knowing exactly what that
entailed, but wanting to err on the side of caution I've always been careful to make sure not to mess
with (un)plugging a mouse from a running computer.

So my question is twofold.

1. Was this ever a real issue, or did it just happen once to someguys cousin's boyfriends' sister?

2. If this IS/WAS a problem, have motherboard manufacturers figured it out yet, and stopped making
crap motherboards? or do we still need to be cautious?

I don't have an exacly answers to your question... But I think that I have plugged/unplugged the PS2 for the mouse and keyboard way over thousand times on a running computer whitout any "blowing".

But one problem can be that the mouse or keyboard sometimes stops to work and then you need to restart the computer.

That is my experince of PS2.

On the other hand I got a computer to stink once when I did this on the printer port when I connected a printer... But on the other hand our instructions where to do this when they didn't have any LAN installed yet and needed to share a printer with many computers.

By the way, the screen I think I have connected a couple of thousand times on a running computer whitout any problem to.