PeeCee <abuse@local.host>, the squelched cardinal, blew out:

> Muse Gruppes wrote:
>> Hi, My computer is a Dell Dimension 8200 and I have a Microsoft
>> Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 which has a USB connection. I have 5
>> peripherals the 4 USB 1.1's are full and the mouse, I got a PS/2
>> mouse adapter and the computer recognized it with no problems, it
>> automatically DLed to drivers when I rebooted and all.
>>
>> So I need to free up one USB because the headphones and mic and the
>> webcam and printer and keyboard are overloading the system, and I get
>> warning messages saying the USB resources are overloaded shows
>> percentages of USB use, etc... So I bought a Keyboard USB to PS/2
>> adapter and I could not get it to work. I tried rebooting to see if
>> plug and play would recognize it, I tried scanning for hardware
>> changes in the device manager, I downloaded the Microsoft Keyboard
>> Program for help. All to no avail, so I called Microsoft for
>> Hardware support and the guy said that this keyboard can only be
>> used in the USB Port. So I asked him if I could download special
>> drivers from some 3rd
>> party site and he said that could not be done because it has to do
>> with the hardware it's self that it just won't work in the PS/2 port.
>>
>> Well this fellow from an outsource office didn't seem to bright when
>> I asked him the questions as he had to keep referring to another
>> employee for an answer. And I got hard headed and said "Dammit, I
>> want that to work!" So, I'm wondering if anyone has any solutions to
>> this? Are there 3rd party driver sites that might have something to help
>> me? -Muse
>>
>> P.S.Oh! I forgot to mention the other weird thing was that a couple
>> of times during my mad hatter attempts to get this thing going. I
>> got the plug and play "Da-Dung" sound a couple times when I put it
>> in. Other times I would get no sound. But either way, my computer
>> would not recognize the keyboard (through the USB)
>>
>>
>> -Muse
>
>
> Muse
>
> Can't say I've ever seen a USB/PS/2 combo keyboard.
> I think you are going to have to accept it will never work.
> The USB / PS/2 adapter is most likely for a 'Mouse' not a
> keyboard.<*****SLAP>

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! You ****witted ****.

> Your 'best' solution would be to buy a powered USB Hub ie one that
> has a power supply to take the load off the computers USB port.
>
> USB has a max power draw of 500ma (half an Amp) per Port,so if you
> use a 'powered' USB hub the only thing the computer USB port has to
> handle is the data traffic, the power supply to the hub supplies the
> power to the devices plugged into it not the computer USB port.
>
> Alternatively you could plug a PCI card into the computer to add extra
> USB ports that way, eg: DSE XH6738
>
> Cheers
> Paul.



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