PS/2 Ports Short Out?

[Deadlierchair]

Well, upon reading my new issue of Maximum PC, in the Athlon64 motherboard review they say that the AOpen board has some sort of circuitry protection so if you plug in a PS/2 device while running it won't short your motherboard out. Is this true? I know that Maximum PC has made some moderate mistakes in the past, but is this for real? And if so, do most motherboards have some sort of protection against it?

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Hypothetically PS/2 is not hot-swappable because the ground pins do not make connact before the hot pins. In pratice, however, this is rarely a problem. YMMV

 

[[H]ot & [H]eavy]

I've got an Aopen AK77-333 that won't recognize the keyboard unless I unplug it and plug it back in during POST...weird, may be the keyboard, but it works