No PS/2 port - Help!

PS2 ports are not included on the system by default, but you could have added one through a PCI adapter when you configured the system (unless you bought it pre-configured). PS2 ports have been around forever, and are finally being phased out (along with serial and parallel ports) in favor of (the superior) USB 2.0. Most of Dell's low to mid range systems, and small form factor systems, seem to have eliminated the ports. Your options:

a) Buy a PCI card PS2 adapter
b) buy a USB keyboard
c) locate drivers for your keyboard to use it with a USB adapter.

Message Edited by CTskydiver on 12-08-2005 01:16 AM

USB to PS/2 adapter

Yep,

I had same thing happen to me. I just went to Best Buy and purchased a PS2 to USB adapter. Now my keyboard works just fine.

And don't worry about drivers for your keyboard, you won't need them. I have a first version Microsoft ergo keyboard and once I connected it to the adapter I just started using the keyboard and it works fine.

Message Edited by butchie_t on 12-08-2005 08:04 AM

Hmm, didn't know they made them go the other way. If they do, why add the ports the computer via PCI card like Dell does? And didn't he say his PS2 mouse > USB computer adapter was NOT working sans drivers?

Message Edited by CTskydiver on 12-08-2005 12:00 PM

Probably because the industry is moving away from PS/2....