PC Hardware Question: PS/2 to USB keyboard difficulties

[scem0]

A month or two ago my dog chewed through my (USB) logitech elite keyboard . I got out my spare crap keyboard, and promptly started seaching for keyboards. I found myself fascinated with the illuminated keyboards, and I ended up buying a Xenix illuminated keyboard:

(sexy, eh?)

My PS/2 ports don't work for some reason. I don't know why, they just died one day about 6 months ago. But that was no biggie for me, because I never used them. So, since the Xenix keyboard is PS/2 I also bought a PS/2 to USB adapter:

(not so sexy)

I got the adapter before the keyboard, and I tried it with my spare dell quietkey spare spare crap keyboard (yes, I have a spare keyboard for when my spare goes out ) and much to my dismay, it didn't work with my quietkey! When plugged in XP said:

USB Device Not Recognized. One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.

Then I tried it on my Mac. No luck. Then I tried it with a PS/2 mouse (my spare-spare crap mouse ) on my PC - no luck. And then on my mac - no luck. This was where I wen't from to . The stupid adapter didn't work.

So, I head off to my local electronics store to get a ps/2 to usb adapter, not trusting eBay anymore. I come home and do the same thing - no luck!

Now I have an illuminated keyboard that I can't use and two ps/2 to usb adapters that don't seem to work! What do I do? I'm sick of my crap keyboard!

Oh and just to add: The keyboard doesn't work, but the computer knows that something is attached to it. When the message ("device unrecognized - blah blah blah") goes away, if I press keys on the keyboard it pops back up. So the computer just doesn't know how to handle the data it is receiving. That immediately makes me think driver (which I thought as soon as I knew that the keyboard and the adapter were fine). But after installing the driver for the Xenix keyboard it still doesn't work.

some specs that might be necessary:
OS - XP Home
Keyboard - Xenix Illuminated Keyboard - model LG-KB602.

Thanks,

scem0

 

[cr2sh]

Hmm.. if you're dead set on using the keyboard, might I suggest a PCI-PS/2 card? You might have a hard time tracking one down.. its an older piece of hardware.

Otherwise, return the keybaord and get a usb model.

Sorry I can't be more help.

 

[scem0]

I thought about a pci card, but after 5 min of searching I gave up. I'll search a little harder.

scem0

ugh.... can't find one ><

 

[scem0]

no one knows where I can get a PS/2 PCI card, do they?

scem0

 

[MrSugar]

no one knows where I can get a PS/2 PCI card, do they?

scem0

For the love of... dude, bite the bullet send back your stuff and just get a USB keyboard. Yikes, sorry, I have no other solution for you.

 

[Apple //e]

1) make sure your ps/2 ports are turned on in the bios. while youre there check usb legacy settings
2)the belkin usb --> 2 ps/2 adaptor works really well. plug in the adaptor first and then the device
3) try going to hardware manager and manually installing a "human interface device" driver for the keyboard (it should have a !)

 

[scem0]

I know there is no waking up my ps/2 ports.

Already turned them on in the BIOS (and updated the BIOS too, just in case).

But I might try the Belkin ps/2 converter, even though i've tried two .

I'll definitely try the manual install.

Thanks,

scem0