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"Every computer where I've replugged a ps/2 mouse, it worked just fine."

PS/2 is not a hot-swappable port, by design. Your hot-swap adventures mean you started out using more modern motherboards (2010-ish) which simply have an internal USB-PS/2 adapter for presenting PS/2 ports.



No, most of my experience was something like 2004 Dells.

If it was running off USB, then plugging in a mouse after boot would have worked. But it didn't. Only re-plugging worked.


Most PS/2 issues were already mitigated by that point.

I specifically remember having a problem on our Windows 2000 Server box that would require a reboot any time the keyboard was un/replugged.




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