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Need help using Y Adapter on Laptop for External Keyboard

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GaryGnu

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I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop running Windows 2000 Professional. I bought one of those Belkin Y PS/2 adapters that should allow me to simultaneously use an external PS/2 keyboard and an external PS/2 mouse. The mouse works fine. But I can't get any external keyboard to work with or without the Y adapter. The Y adapter came with no instructions at all. Do I need to add hardware or something?

Thanks for any help.

Gary
 
Some laptops require you to make a setting in the BIOS using the CMOS access menu to enable simultaneous or exclusive PS/2 devices.

Many laptops are now designed to use USB external keyboards.
 
Gary,

We use the Belkin splitters regularly at work. You shouldn't need any additional hardware to get it working properly. If you look closely at the end of the splitter where you plug in the keyboard and mouse, you'll see a small K and a small M. Make sure you don't have them switched around. If that doesn't work, take it back as it must be bad. I've never seen one not work (on IBM, Compaq, Dell and HP laptops that we use anyway).

Jeff
 
I originally thought the adapter was bad. However, I've tried 2 different working keyboards in the PS/2 port by itself (no Y adapter), and the keyboard does not function. That is why I thought it was some kind of setting. My laptop was recently upgraded from Windows NT to Windows 2000. When I had Windows NT, the Y adapter did not work, but the keyboard plugged into the PS/2 port alone worked.

Gary
 
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