Re: From USB to PS/2 Keyboard --> PS/2 Does Not Work
From: Steve N. (me_at_here.now)
Date: 10/30/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:51:43 GMT
Rich Morey wrote:
> 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
I'd go into Device Manager and remove the USB keyboard entry, reboot and
see if the PS/2 kb is then detected by Windows.
Steve
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