I have hot plugged keyboards and mice many times without any problems. Probably the biggest hazard when doing it is static electricity; not a big problem in south Florida. When I worked in the frozen north I had a site that would regularly zap keyboard controllers during the winter when hot plugging the keyboard. This was before PCs, and I could replace the circuit board with the controller on it.

Gerard Bok wrote:
>
> On 15 Nov 2006 19:06:08 -0800, bob@coolgroups.com wrote:
>
> >Sometimes my keyboard stops working. If I unplug it and plug it back
> >into my PC, it works again though.
>
> Don't!
> The keyboard is not designed to be hot-pluggable.
>
> You may damage both your keyboard and your PC by plugging or
> unplugging the keyboard while power is on.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Gerard Bok

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.