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New system, Dell Wireless keyboard
My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) |
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On 04 Apr 2006 07:18:30 -0400, wrote:
My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, Some folks on the Dell forums have used Logitech's software with their Dell wireless keyboards to access the programmable function keys. It's a free download. My wireless keyboard shows up as a standard PS/2 keyboard on my XPS600 (I have it plugged into the PS/2 port) so I would imagine it should show as a standard USB. I have no drivers loaded for the keyboard. Did you try synching the keyboard with the receiver before plugging in the standard one? Dave |
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wrote in message ... My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) I don't own a wireless keyboard, so I can't say if it's typical. I can tell you that I keep both wired PS2 keyboard handy in case a given machine will not boot using the USB keyboard - so retain your old wired keyboard for those odd situations just in case. I'm guessing that the Dell factory image will have the wireless kb drivers present. If not, no disc? If not.........support website perhaps? Stew |
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some confusion here - you don't need drivers for wireless keyboards.
you need drivers for the extra buttons on wireless keyboards, such as shortcuts to IE, etc. getting the keyboard recognised is a hardware issue: typically you plug the receiver into the PC, press a button on that, then press a matching button on keyboard and mouse to pair them all together - this is needed because if they hardcoded them all to work out of the box, it would interfere with any other wireless keyboards nearby. this should be mentioned in your keyboard's manual, however. ric |
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wrote in message ... My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) I suspect it was just a green button issue. Get them talking before you boot. Tom |
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... My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Pressing the Connect button? Think so (been my experience). Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I would hope not, but can't say for sure. How does your wireless KB connect to your computer (and which Dell)? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? The generic drivers included w/XP should work for the KB's basic functions (same for a wireless mouse). You'll need the manufacturer's drivers for all the bells & whistles. I agree with Stew - definitely hang on to a wired KB & mouse - you never know. HTH, good luck with your machine. |
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wrote in message ... Tom Scales writes: wrote in message news ... My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) Tom I suspect it was just a green button issue. Get them talking before you Tom boot. I tried that a couple of times before giving up. I expect something needed was not loaded when the initial Dell setup screens came up. It has worked fine since, with many reboots and no green button pushing... Now, if only I could figure out why Firefox keeps crashing when I am away from the computer. One blue screen too, when turning on an external hard drive. Found the drive just fine after a restart... Gotta run memtest on it... Andrew... If it makes you feel any better, I've had problems with Firefox periodically becoming buggy. Granted, I use a lot of downloadable extensions for it, but on my Dim8300 it seems that some of the latest versions of the browser don't work well. While I didn't get BSOD's, it would lose connections frequently or simply dump/crash in the middle of multi-tab sessions. As a result of that,I've uninistalled FF on a few occasions and gone back to earlier versions (I keep the core .exe files in a folder). I'm currently rolled back to version 1.0.4 with the added extensions and it's been stable for a while. hth Stew |
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S Lewis writes:
wrote in message news ... Tom Scales writes: wrote in message news ... My outlet XPS 600 arrived yesterday. When I turned it on to the configuration boot screens, the PC did not recognize the wireless keyboard. After grabbing a wired keyboard and mouse from another system, I configured it and then could install the wireless keyboard (needed to press the manual connect green button on the keyboard). Is this typical? Should I expect to need a wired keyboard in case I have to reinstall XP? I could not find any drivers for the keyboard on the Dell site. Are the wireless drivers build into XP, or does the receiver present itself to XP as a standard USB keyboard? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) Tom I suspect it was just a green button issue. Get them talking before you Tom boot. I tried that a couple of times before giving up. I expect something needed was not loaded when the initial Dell setup screens came up. It has worked fine since, with many reboots and no green button pushing... Now, if only I could figure out why Firefox keeps crashing when I am away from the computer. One blue screen too, when turning on an external hard drive. Found the drive just fine after a restart... Gotta run memtest on it... S Andrew... S If it makes you feel any better, I've had problems with Firefox periodically S becoming buggy. Granted, I use a lot of downloadable extensions for it, but S on my Dim8300 it seems that some of the latest versions of the browser don't S work well. While I didn't get BSOD's, it would lose connections frequently S or simply dump/crash in the middle of multi-tab sessions. I have the same version with a lot more extensions on some other XP Pro machines with almost no crashes. So something seems different on the new machine. I do not believe any of the few extensions I have on that box are not on the others. S As a result of that,I've uninistalled FF on a few occasions and gone back to S earlier versions (I keep the core .exe files in a folder). S I'm currently rolled back to version 1.0.4 with the added extensions and S it's been stable for a while. We will see. I am in the habit of leaving it up with multiple tabs open for days at a time. ah -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) |
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"S.Lewis" wrote:
snip If it makes you feel any better, I've had problems with Firefox periodically becoming buggy. Granted, I use a lot of downloadable extensions for it, but on my Dim8300 it seems that some of the latest versions of the browser don't work well. While I didn't get BSOD's, it would lose connections frequently or simply dump/crash in the middle of multi-tab sessions. As a result of that,I've uninistalled FF on a few occasions and gone back to earlier versions (I keep the core .exe files in a folder). I'm currently rolled back to version 1.0.4 with the added extensions and it's been stable for a while. While y'all are talking about Firefox, I've got a quick question... Take a look at View | Character Encoding. Mine is set to Unicode (UTF-8) and, for the life of me, I can't get it to default to Western (ISO-8859-1). Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Notan |
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