PCIe to PS/2 Adapter

I looked at your suggestion above and some others and I do not see such a conversion

I need to connect to an ... old KVM setup that uses PS/2 ...... If such a PCIe card does not exist, have you any other suggestions?

We upgraded all our KVM switches to use modern connectors.

I have several USB to PS/2 converters and splitters already - no Joy.
The PCI card worked a treat on PCs with PCI slots.

If the converter fails, I may wind up buying a modern 8 way KVM switcher.

Do you lose the mouse / keyboard when you switch away from the PC and then back to it when using splitter plus converters?

This one is less than $5  

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=104&cp_id=10404&cs_id=1040401&p_id=2274&seq=1&format=2

Do you lose the mouse / keyboard when you switch away from the PC and then back to it when using splitter plus converters?

My experience is that they work for the keyboard - the mouse is never seen .... even in a stand alone situation (i.e. no KVM)

I've ordered the PCIe to PCI adapter and it will shortly be on a slow boat from China .... Literally!

How will you get the full height card into it, can you remove the USB ports?

You mean one of these doesn't even work with a PS/2 mouse or via USB mouse with a USB to PS/2 mouse converter?



I don't think it's a standard PS/2 shared mouse/keyboard port on that PC then.

I have several of the exact same devices illustrated in the above post - no joy.

How will you get the full height card into it, can you remove the USB ports?

It won't be a neat/exact fit - I'm sure I'll muddle through.

I'll do a follow-up post in about a month and let you know how I fared.

I will close this question myself when I receive the above mentioned piece of equipment from China.
Hopefully, this will occur within the next 2 weeks.

Agreed, want to see the photos of how you mount it. Think you're going to have to saw the top off the board and cut all the traces to avoid shorts. Hopefilly there's no ground/supply layers on that part of the PCB.

Still waiting

The adapter card arrived - I'll post results in about a week.

Recon it got lost in the post!

I'll close this within the next 7 days

Mighty long 7 days!

days get longer with the earth warming up...

nobus is right, a warmer earth means more evaporation from hydroelectric dams and with less water behind those dams the earth spins slightly slower.

jeez - i never knew i was THAT smart

A second opinion is required ...

Slower rotation makes winters longer, cooling the earth into a new ice age.  Glaciers once again cover Russia, China, Europe, Canada and most of the USA, forcing humans underground, where they contaminate the ground water.  As they boil water underground the vapor causes huge sink holes that crack up the glaciers causing the planet to wobble and creating 400 foot ocean tides.   Those tides drench the remaining southern cities, forcing those humans move to Sea in flotillas.  They wind up over fishing the oceans, which then stagnate, with algae.  That creates green house gasses, which then heats the wobbly planet, melts the glaciers and floods the underground cities.  Those humans escape to the ocean in flotillas, learn to use algae for food, and teach others.  The algae disappear, causing the wobbly planet to cool, but this time the wobble causes glaciers to form unevenly exaggerating the planets wobble and eventually tearing it out of its orbit.    All this happens in the blink of an eye in geological time.

this is real SF - and all that from a keyboard adapter...

Mighty long 7 days!

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Changing circumstances are still delaying me trying my solution and
I cannot leave this question open perpetually.

I'll still post a result later this year.