Can I / Should I add PS/2 ports?

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AlanQ

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Today I received my link to the 360 of my new PC :)

I noticed that there is no PS/2 port on the motherboard:
GIGABYTE X870 EAGLE WIFI7 (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7)

It makes sense to me for my main route(s) of communication to be on a separate 'bus' to everything else. The screen has its own comm line, so should the keyboard/mouse. If USB goes 'down', I can do nothing. Hence I like PS/2 .

Can I / should I slot a PS/2 board into one of my two PCIe slots?

Any thoughts much appreciated.
Thank you
 
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TonyCarter

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It’s not a single USB ‘bus’, so there’s redundancy anyway….plus there’s always Bluetooth connectivity.

But it’s probably only specialist motherboards that have them as standard (for overclocking fallback, budget/office motherboards, industrial applications, etc.).
 
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SpyderTracks

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AlanQ said:
Today I received my link to the 360 of my new PC :)

I noticed that there is no PS/2 port on the motherboard:
GIGABYTE X870 EAGLE WIFI7 (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7)

It makes sense to me for my main route(s) of communication to be on a separate 'bus' to everything else. The screen has its own comm line, so should the keyboard/mouse. If USB goes 'down', I can do nothing. Hence I like PS/2 .

Can I / should I slot a PS/2 board into one of my two PCIe slots?

Any thoughts much appreciated.
Thank you
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If USB goes down, it's because the motherboard is dead, having a PS2 port wouldn't help at all.

There is one USB controller on the chipset, and one directly on the CPU and a third dedicated USB 4 controller. They could only all go down if the entire board was dead.
 
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AlanQ

Member
Thank you all for your thoughts.

TonyCarter said:
It’s not a single USB ‘bus’, so there’s redundancy anyway….plus there’s always Bluetooth connectivity.

But it’s probably only specialist motherboards that have them as standard (for overclocking fallback, budget/office motherboards, industrial applications, etc.).
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It's good to know there's USB redundancy.

I hadn't thought of Bluetooth 💡

SpyderTracks said:
If USB goes down, it's because the motherboard is dead, having a PS2 port wouldn't help at all.

There is one USB controller on the chipset, and one directly on the CPU and a third dedicated USB 4 controller. They could only all go down if the entire board was dead.
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If USB goes down is more likely because I'm messing with USB at the OS level 😀

Paul1964 said:
If you specifically need PS2 ports you can get this from Amazon
PS2 to USB adaptor
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Thank you, Paul, but this still relies upon USB.
I'm thinking something more like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Expansion-Terminal-Interfaces-Power-Interface-default/dp/B0BD8JRL5G ?
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
I think you're overthinking this. If there is a failure on the motherboard there is no telling what may be involved. You can't isolate motherboard failures/systems in this way. I think your time would be better spent worrying about drive failures, RAM failures, and even CPU failures. I see those all the time, but motherboard failures are not common.
 
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