Re: From USB to PS/2 Keyboard --> PS/2 Does Not Work

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From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:44:49 GMT

Get a new PS2 mouse. If the mouse is not working then the driver is
problably old too,
You may encounter video problems or lock ups or crashes.
You can find Mice all over the junk piles if you can't afford a new one.

SJ
"Rich Morey" <rwmorey@27east.com> wrote in message
news:f69a1b96.0410291357.796b7379@posting.google.com...
> Hi --
>
> I installed Windows XP on my machine with a USB keyboard attached. I
> have recently replaced my USB keyboard with a PS/2 keyboard, but the
> PS/2 keyboard does not work under XP. It does work when the machine is
> first starting up -- i.e. I can enter the bios, make changes in the
> bios, etc.
>
> From looking at another PC I have it appears that my PC with the USB
> keyboard does not have the i8042.sys file so I copied this from one
> machine to the other. I have tried multiple times to detect the PS/2
> keyboard through the hardware wizard but to no avail..
>
> According to Microsoft's support web site the PS/2 keyboard (or mouse)
> is "autmoatically" detected by the OS which is why you can not
> manually install the device driver. However, this is clearly not the
> case.
>
> Can anyone help??
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich

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    ... into a global structure and into a buffer if configured that way. ... So normally, you'd load a keyboard driver which attaches to the first PS/2 port, and a mouse driver which attaches to the second PS/2 port. ... So if you plugged a keyboard into the second PS/2 port, all you would have to do is unload the mouse driver, and load a second keyboard driver, telling it to use the second PS/2 port instead of the first. ... Since the IPC protocol it uses to connect to the second PS/2 port is identical to the IPC protocol it uses to connect to the first PS/2 port, it will happily connect to it instead. ...
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