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

[Rich Morey]

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

 

[Guest]

You shouls either/and,go to windows update for the drivers for the key-board,
then go to the mfg web site for drivers/software.

 

[Rock]

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

Do a repair installation. See this link. Note that you will loose all
updates and service packs and have to reinstall them, depending on what
SP version your CD is. http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[SlowJet]

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

 

[Steve N.]

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