OK, I bought an Apple wireless (aluminum, bluetooth) keyboard on eBay for my HP Pavilion laptop. I thought it would work after reading all the successful reports from other people in forums using the wireless keyboard with Windows XP PCs.
I've done a ton of searching, and many people seemed to use a few workarounds to get the keyboard to pair properly, but I have had no success after hours of attempts. I've tried various drivers for my Kensington USB bluetooth adapter, but still no luck. When I run the bluetooth wizard, the keyboard is recognized, but at the pairing screen where a security code should come up, the wizard freezes for several seconds and gives me an error message saying, "Error in paring device..." I believe that on my 2nd or 3rd attempt, a security code came up but then it just froze again. So far, I haven't been able to input anything from the Apple keyboard.
Any advice? If you've paired the Apple wireless keyboard with an HP or other PC running XP, what did you have to do to pair successfully? Thanks in advance.
I've done a ton of searching, and many people seemed to use a few workarounds to get the keyboard to pair properly, but I have had no success after hours of attempts. I've tried various drivers for my Kensington USB bluetooth adapter, but still no luck. When I run the bluetooth wizard, the keyboard is recognized, but at the pairing screen where a security code should come up, the wizard freezes for several seconds and gives me an error message saying, "Error in paring device..." I believe that on my 2nd or 3rd attempt, a security code came up but then it just froze again. So far, I haven't been able to input anything from the Apple keyboard.
Any advice? If you've paired the Apple wireless keyboard with an HP or other PC running XP, what did you have to do to pair successfully? Thanks in advance.