PS/2 to USB Converter

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Hopefully this is the right board for my question, which is:

If I disable all USB ports, but then use a PS/2 to USB converter, will
that USB device work? Thank you.
 
Hopefully this is the right board for my question, which is:

If I disable all USB ports, but then use a PS/2 to USB converter, will
that USB device work? Thank you.
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Why dont you try it and see.
 
Hopefully this is the right board for my question, which is:

If I disable all USB ports, but then use a PS/2 to USB converter, will
that USB device work? Thank you.
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Yes, if you had a PS/2 to USB converter that works when the
USB ports are enabled, it would continue to do so
afterwards. The enabling or disabling of the USB ports does
not mean "USB in general, any and all USB", it only
determines whether the specific ports being addressed, on
the board through bios or in OS, will be enabled. Similarly
if you disabled them and installed a PCI USB controller
card, the card's ports would work still unless you also
disable those additional ports.
 
Hopefully this is the right board for my question, which is:

If I disable all USB ports, but then use a PS/2 to USB converter, will
that USB device work? Thank you.
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Bad news! There probably is no 'PS/2 to USB converter'.

You may find some gadgets to connect a mouse and keyboard. (Which
may or may not work.)

PS/2 is your keyboard-mouse connector on the motherboard.
Intended to handle keyboard-typing speed or mouse movements. USB
requires a speed of at least 10 Mbps (USB 1.1) or even higher
(USB 2).

My advice: forget it. (Unless mouse and keyboard are the only
devices you ever want to connect to this 'converter'. But then:
what's the point ?)
 
Bad news! There probably is no 'PS/2 to USB converter'.

You may find some gadgets to connect a mouse and keyboard. (Which
may or may not work.)

PS/2 is your keyboard-mouse connector on the motherboard.
Intended to handle keyboard-typing speed or mouse movements. USB
requires a speed of at least 10 Mbps (USB 1.1) or even higher
(USB 2).

My advice: forget it. (Unless mouse and keyboard are the only
devices you ever want to connect to this 'converter'. But then:
what's the point ?)
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That's a very good point, the typical USB-PS2 adapters that
come with a mouse or keyboard don't really "adapt" USB to
PS2 per se, only making the specific devices that already
worked on both interfaces, pin compatible. However, under
the presumption that the device is a keyboard or mouse that
is being connected (else why use the PS2 port for it?), many
of them are designed to do this.
 
I don't have a converter so I was hoping to use the resources of this
board.
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what device is it exactly ? I've got a USB mouse that came with an USB to
PS2 converter. I could use that and disable all my USB ports but I dont have
reason to do so. So what device is it and why do you want to disable your
USB ports?
 
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