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

Hello Hula,

Would that be Old Milwaukee or Samuel Adams?
If the later, drink one for me.... I don't drink much anymore myself...!

Glad you got it fixed.

Richard In Va.
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"Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David et al,
EUREKA!!! I found it, I FOUND it! Remember all the "fun" we used to
have with TSRs with DOS? Well nowadays it's DRIVERS. All of my installed
Windows systems but one have KBs with special drivers for extra keys for
things like controlling sound, bringing up browsers, scrolling, etc. Well
the DRIVER for those KBs was my problem. It finally dawned on me, so I
booted up my virgin XP system and VOILA, no more PS/2 keyboard problem.
Ain't technology wunnerful! :-) Now I'll have to find out whether my
friend has a special KB driver - I think she does because it's a Dell
system and KB.
Many thanks to all the folks who've contributed to helping. I feel a
whole lot better now - this was just bugging the @#$% out of me. :-)
Funny how something like this can just stick in your gut and not leave you
alone 'till you solve it. I think I'll go drink a beer and celebrate. :-)

David Cheatham wrote:
Hula Baloo wrote:


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?


Oh, well ignore my other post.

If ps2 keyboards, in general, do not work with it, it's broken, period.
Don't even bother with it.


And unless you have a keyboard you really like, just buy a new
keyboard. I only use my adapter because I have a KVM that doesn't do
USB.




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