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How can I use this keyboard in Windows 10?

kelvinhall05

As some of you may know, I recently found a Dell AT101 keyboard at a thrift store for $7, and it works...sort of. I cleaned it up nicely, so now I'd like to use it (not replace my Masterkeys, but occasionally type on it), but it won't work in Windows. I know the obvious "shut down your PC, PS/2 isn't hot-swappable", but that doesn't work. The keyboard works in the BIOS and before my PC starts loading Windows, but once that starts to happen...boom. It stops working. It won't show up in device manager either, any ideas? Thanks!

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12 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

As some of you may know, I recently found a Dell AT101 keyboard at a thrift store for $7, and it works...sort of. I cleaned it up nicely, so now I'd like to use it (not replace my Masterkeys, but occasionally type on it), but it won't work in Windows. I know the obvious "shut down your PC, PS/2 isn't hot-swappable", but that doesn't work. The keyboard works in the BIOS and before my PC starts loading Windows, but once that starts to happen...boom. It stops working. It won't show up in device manager either, any ideas? Thanks!

It could be a driver issue, if you can find the right driver it should work. Or you can go with a ps2 to usb adapter wich usually doesn't require driver

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