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Trouble installing my new Ipac
destructor:
If it's USB cable I-PAC connect to another USB port in PC.
Tiger-Heli:
Couldn't tell from your posts but wanted to mention -
XP will not install a PS/2 keyboard if it is not found at startup. In other words -
Under Win98 - Hot-swap the PS/2 I-PAC all you want (There is some inherent danger in this).
Under WinXP - You can plug the I-PAC in with the PC powered down and then start the PC, or plug in a standard PS/2 keyboard and hot-swap it for the I-PAC (some risk), but you cannot start the PC with no keyboard or a USB keyboard and then plug in the I-PAC.
At least the above is true for the KeyWiz, but they are both basically PS/2 Keyboard devices.
clhug:
That's a good point too. If you're connecting the I-Pac via PS/2 then it looks to the PC just like a normal PS/2 keyboard. Back to my original note about whether you see keystrokes appear in Notepad, if you're able to make a DOS bootable floppy disk, boot with that directly to a DOS prompt and see if keystrokes appear at the DOS command prompt when you press the buttons on the I-Pac. Again, make sure you have at least one button hooked up that generates a genuine character that you can actually see and not something like a CTRL, Shift, or arrow key. If the characters do not show up, then the PC hardware itself is not recognizing the I-Pac and it has nothing to do with Windows.
This test may or may not work if you hook up the I-Pac via USB depending on whether your PC supports USB keyboards at the BIOS level.