Ever heard of a ps/2 PCI card?

flop · 06-06-2006 2:11pm #1

Hi all,

A mate just bought a new dell without any ps/2 ports. He has a couple of joysticks that have ps/2 connectors. His problem is that when he connects the joystick to the pc via a usb to ps/2 cable, the joystick tends to veer toward the up and left controls, (a bit like if the joystick wasn't calibrated)

So i was just wondering if there is such a thing as a PCI card with ps/2 ports for mouse and keyboard. I googled, couldn't find anyting apart from usb to ps/2 cables bu i'd thought i'd ask anyway.

Cheers
Flop

Ruu_Old · 06-06-2006 2:24pm

Never heard of one before, would this work?

MunsterCycling · 06-06-2006 2:36pm

Think its time for a new joystick.

8T8 · 06-06-2006 2:43pm

I recall something like that but it was a long time ago early Pentium, K6 era I don't know where you might find such a device these days. They were an add-in for systems that still used the old style AT connector.

I'd go with what MunsterCycling said time for a new joystick.

Gurgle · 06-06-2006 3:48pm

flop wrote:

if there is such a thing as a PCI card with ps/2 ports for mouse and keyboard

There certainly is, though last time I saw one it was in a Pentium-200MMX

Best of luck tracking one down now.

Start with tech-museums.

zilog_jones · 06-06-2006 3:52pm

They were probably ISA cards, as PS/2 ports go through the ISA bus and PCs of that age would have ISA card slots. Won't find them on anything newer than a PIII though!

sceptre · 06-06-2006 6:11pm

Funnily enough these cards were addins for Dells for a few months up to recently. Dunno if they're available now, I know when I bought a PC from there recently it wasn't there as an addin option. And I can't remember where they connected on the motherboard, there was a cable of some sort (and that connector probably isn't on the current crop of Dell motherboards so I suspect it won't help)

Short answer: they do exist (though technically they're not PCI cards).

Totally aside I didn't know there were PS/2 joypads/sticks in recent years, even back in pre-USB days I never had anything but a RS232/15-pin serial one.

Tom Dunne · 06-06-2006 6:52pm

sceptre wrote:

Totally aside I didn't know there were PS/2 joypads/sticks in recent years, even back in pre-USB days I never had anything but a RS232/15-pin serial one.

I was thinking the same thing myself.

Are you certain they are PS/2? I've had numerous joysticks/joypads over the years (way back as far as Widnows 95) and have never heard of a PS/2 connector on one.

Ever heard of a ps/2 PCI card?

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