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I recently bought a HP Pavilion DV8000 laptop with Windows XP Home
Edition installed. The DV8000 doesn't come with a PS2 port so I used
the PS2 to USB converter in order to hook up an external keyboard
(Emachine 9021 Mutimedia) then I receive an "USB Device Not
Recognized" error. I was able to hook the EMachine Keyboard up to my
mom's older Gateway Desktop via both the PS2 connection and the USB
(using the adapter) and it worked fine both times just not on my
laptop.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this keyboard to work with
this laptop? I find the "Cut, Paste & Copy" keys invaluable and after
looking at the different keyboards out there that have these options I
found that the EMachine key boards suited me best.

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> I recently bought a HP Pavilion DV8000 laptop with Windows XP Home
> Edition installed. The DV8000 doesn't come with a PS2 port so I used
> the PS2 to USB converter in order to hook up an external keyboard
> (Emachine 9021 Mutimedia) then I receive an "USB Device Not
> Recognized" error. I was able to hook the EMachine Keyboard up to my
> mom's older Gateway Desktop via both the PS2 connection and the USB
> (using the adapter) and it worked fine both times just not on my
> laptop.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this keyboard to work with
> this laptop? I find the "Cut, Paste & Copy" keys invaluable and after
> looking at the different keyboards out there that have these options I
> found that the EMachine key boards suited me best.
>
Did you check that maybe there are drivers that have to load in order
for that keyboard to work ? Did you refresh the list in device mgr ?
Does it show up in there ?