New keyboard and mouse

[hellkat]

I cant get my new keyboard and mouse to work.
I had to buy a new (optical wireless) ones cos for some reason my ps/2 (?) connections werent working.

So I bought brand new ones (a set) and when i put the batteries in, the mouse (at first) connected and worked but the keyboard never did.

Now the mouse has stopped workin and i have had to plug in an old sticky usb keyboard in found in the cupboard, which hardly works and they keys stick, and I have NO mouse at all (using the tab key and frowning a lot).

What have I done wrong?
The (NEW) USB connect thing has a blue light on it, as it should, and the num/caps lock light works when the old sticky keyboard is plugged in, but when I take that out and try to use the other (new) mouse and keyboard, the numlock light stays on and nothing h appens. No mouse, no keyboard.

I tried pressing the Connect button. It only worked the once when the mouse first worked, but now even the mouse has stopped.

I'm ver cross.

How do I get them to work properly?
(yes, I have tried rebooting the coputer. SEVERAL THOUSAND times)

(see what I mean about sticky keys. annoying)
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[panrider_uk]

Usually you press connect on the tranceiver (the bit plugged into the pc) then the connect button on the mouse and the connect button on the keyboard. The order you press the connect buttons should be in the instructions.

Mark
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[hellkat]

There were fairly limited instructions

It didnt say anything about any order, in fact it didnt even say whether you had to press them separately or at the same time (I assumed at first, just one after the other, but then I wondered once it was "not working" properly" whether I should have pressed both at the same time.

It just said to press the Connect button on the back of the mouse, and on the back of the keyboard. I did so for the mouse, and it worked fine, but the keyboard one would not work.

From memory (I'm now at work), the bit that plugs into the PC via USB only has a Connect light, not a button. At first, that light flickered when the mouse was connecting, but then the Numlock light came on and stayed on, and the keyboard would not work at all.

If I plug a different (i.e, the rubbish sticky-key) keyboard in, then the numlock and capslock and scroll lock lights on the new USB work as well, but only with the rubbish keyboard, not the new one. Its most peculiar.

I think I did check for a connect button or an on-off switch, but as it came straight on and in fact started the mouse up perfectly straight away when I pressed the connect button on the mouse ... but not the keyboard.

As this is something which I am certain is extremely simple (when you know what you are doing) I will have a look again tonight, but its extraordinarily frustrating. I might cry
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[Inkognito]

It might be interfering with another wireless device.
Try switching channel for the mouse and keyboard. Switch might be on the receiver.

[N cee thirty]

unplug all the usb devices except the keyboard/mouse reciver and then reboot and then try it again


see if the mouse works again and then if the keyboards still a bar steward press both buttons on the keyboard and the reciever for about 15 secs,check your batteries are good aswell
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[TQ]

The connect sequence is usually:

button on receiver->button on mouse->button on receiver->button on keyboard.
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[hellkat]

Hmm, lets see what happens when I get home.

Thanks guys.

If you don't hear from me, I will probably have thrown myself under the wheels of a plane in frustration.
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[hellkat]

Ahhhh, thank you my honeys *mwah*
TQ's suggestion was the first I tried, and it worked perfectly.

happy hellkat
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[TQ]

glad you got it working
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Third: 1998 Yamaha XJ600N | Currently: 1999 Yamaha FZS600