Windows 10 crashes while playing Games
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To be completely sure: you mean unplug everything and plug it back in?
Thanks, now it works again. It's always so annoying to unplug Stuff or plug Stuff in in there especially the Cables that are directly connected to the Motherboard
This is the reason I lost broadband for a week when virgin forgot to plug in my connection in the street box when performing upgrade fr someone else! When surgeon do this in heart ops its more serious..
Now the only Problem is that the Mouse and the Keyboard (both USB which is absolutely stupid because a special Plug for Keyboards exists 
) don't work for some Reason but I think I will just need to check the Cables for the USB inside
Edit: luckily I didn't need to plug it out and back in. I just needed to push them a little bit
) don't work for some Reason but I think I will just need to check the Cables for the USB insideEdit: luckily I didn't need to plug it out and back in. I just needed to push them a little bit
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That 'special plug' for mouse and keyboard went out of date sometime earlier this century...there's a reason why most modern peripherals are now USB.Now the only Problem is that the Mouse and the Keyboard (both USB which is absolutely stupid because a special Plug for Keyboards exists
Edit: luckily I didn't need to plug it out and back in. I just needed to push them a little bit
While true, some super serial gamers prefer PS2 as there's no latency.
To me this sounds absolutely stupid. What's the Reason? I can understand it for the Mouse because a wireless Mouse is way better but why should the Keyboard require a USB Plug? I've had the same Keyboard since I've got my first Computer and it was even in Use before and there where never any Problems with it
For the same reason black and white TV's went out of fashion...they work perfectly well, some purists still like them but there's more modern options that in general, the industry have adopted wholesale rather than stick to an outdated technology standard just to satisfy those who should have upgraded their hardware...and their thinking... a long time ago
Saying that, I still build, restore and ride 1940's motorbikes because I don't much like the modern ones (I do own one or two though)...so I guess I see your point
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I was going to add that during my early Elite days I had many crashes. Ultimately it was down to power and graphics card drivers. I seriously upped my power pack, fitted the lastest (at the time) graphics card and made sure I used the manufacturers latest drivers. Never ever use the standard drivers that windows installs as they are not good enough for proper gaming.
CPU as well, if all else fails. Hard to meaningfully dislodge or fail to insert an FPGA CPU in a manner that works and then doesn't due to being bumped, but not impossible.
PS/2 is, in some ways, a superior connector for keyboards (and only keyboards). You can get unlimited key rollover more easily and it's latency is lower than USB because it's interrupt based, rather than polling the device at given intervals. Average latency for a standard 125Hz polled USB device is 4 milliseconds, while a 1000Hz device averages 0.5ms. A PS/2 port generated interrupt is in the microseconds. The difference at the high-end is completely trivial, but it's still enough for PS/2 ports to be put on some modern boards, not only as a legacy support feature, but as a 'gaming' feature.
Standardization.
Every modern SoC/chipset has a USB controller, but PS/2 support was pulled from most chipsets over a decade ago, so legacy functions require the presence of a legacy bus and an extra super I/O chip that takes up board area, complicates trace routing, and adds some cost.
Asus prime X570 boards all come with a PS2 connector for either mouse or keyboard.
So the form factor is either coming back, or Asus got really confused.
PS/2 never died, it's just become an optional, and frequently omitted, feature. Even those boards that have a super I/O chip that provides PS/2 functionality often omit the actual ports to cut down on production costs. It's not hard to find boards that have them, as most still need a super I/O chip for hardware monitoring functions, but the legacy I/O is often the first thing sacrificed when more traces need to be routed or more modern ports need to be added to the rear I/O panel. About half of modern boards have at least one PS/2 port.
Most keyboards are USB first, even those that still support PS/2 via an adapter. Modern board firmware is also all UEFI, which will almost always supports USB, so there is no requirement for PS/2 to configure them...hence it being a legacy or gaming feature.
Personally, I don't consider it a make or break feature any more, but when possible, I still connect my mechanical keyboards via PS/2. The only boards I have that don't have PS/2 ports are my ASUS X570 Crosshair VIII Impact and the ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming ITX/ax that I replaced it with, because they are SFF boards that don't physically have room for legacy I/O features. ASRock could probably have squeezed in a PS/2 port on this board, but they'd rather save 70 cents on the BoM, and the only other boards that met my criteria also didn't have any.