Re: Old non-USB keyboard with USB-only PC?

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Many thanks to those of you who've responded so far. I have a Belkin "USB Dual PS/2 Adaptor" (FSU119-E), which has two female PS/2 plugs (one for a PS/2 keyboard, one for a PS/2 mouse), and one male USB plug, which seems to have some "smarts" in that it identifies itself to Windows as a USBPS2 HID device, and a PS/2 mouse works fine with it. However PS/2 keyboards DON'T work with it. I've tried several devices on 2 PCs, one running XP Home, the other XP Media Edition, both at the latest maintenance level without success with the KBs. I think I've spent far more time on this problem than it deserves when my friend could go out and buy a nice keyboard for under $20!
Any other ideas anyone?

Hula Baloo wrote:
I have a friend who recently got a new PC with ONLY USB ports (i.e. legacy free - no PS2, serial, parallel, etc.) who would love to continue using a really old keyboard. I got the hardware adaptors, and plugged into several USB ports; however Windows XP fails to recognize the old keyboard because it wasn't designed for plug and play operation. If I remove the PS2 to USB adaptor and plug this KB into another PC, it works fine, but I haven't been able to find a way to make it work with the PS2 to USB adaptor. I tried the "Add New Hardware" applet, reloading drivers from Device Manager, but haven't found a workable solution. So if any of you fine knowledgable people know of a way to do this, please let me know!
I keep telling this friend that she can buy a new USB keyboard for less than she's spent on the adaptors, but she's in love with the dinosaur keyboard. If any of you kind experts know how to make a non-plug and play KB work with USB adaptors (with XP), please let me know. Thank you very much in advance.


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