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  1. August 12th, 2001, 07:06 AM #1
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    Question Laptop ps/2 ports

    I was always told it was not safe to plug in a ps/2 mouse when the computer was running. Is it safe on a laptop?
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    It's perfectly fine

    On desktops, I've never heard of it being unsafe, but usually you have to reboot for the mouse to work.

    But laptops do it just fine
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    I would definately call it unsafe. Lost a few motherboard finding that out. Dont know about laptops though
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    [quote]Originally posted by techs:
    <strong>I was always told it was not safe to plug in a ps/2 mouse when the computer was running. Is it safe on a laptop?</strong><hr></blockquote>

    It is not safe to plug a device into a powered port while the machine power is on. Toshiba notebooks have proven particularly sensitive to this, in my... umm... "testing", or rather finding out a motherboard had to be replaced because someone thought it was OK to plug in whatever whenever.
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