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Apple (iMac) USB Keyboard + Mouse on a PC with Windows98SE

Asked by aggies11 in Apple Operating Systems, Apple

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I'm putting together a new pc, but unfortunately I don't have any PC keyboards or mice in the house. But what I do have is a blue iMac with it's USB keyboard and Mouse... ;)

  I have win98SE and WinXP on the computer.  XP recognizes the keyboard and mouse automatically (Calling each a USB Human Interaction Device).

  However, when I boot the system with Win98 it detects the hardware ("Apple USB Keyboard" for keyboard and "M4848" for the mouse) but it doesn't automatically install the driver, and instead I get the dialogue for finding your own driver.  But the only problem is, neither the keyboard nor mouse work at that point, so I am forced todo a cold boot.  (I'm thinking maybe if I had a PS/2 mouse at this point, I could proceed to find an acceptable driver for the mouse

  Whats interesting is that the keyboard will work fine under Win98 safe mode.  It lists it as a standard 102 compatible keyboard.  And since safemode is enabled, it doesn't auto detect the USB keyboard device.  I've done a bit of experimenting (removing the standard 102 keyboard from device manager while in safe mode) and when win98 starts up normal after that, it autodetecs the 102 keyboard and installs a driver, and then detects the apple usb keyboard but I still have no input functionality to proceed with the dialogue box.

  The keyboard works fine with my motherboard's bios (ECS k7s5a), booting to dos, etc.  What I'm thinking is that maybe, since it's a USB keyboard, the bios emulates a standard 102key ps2, (which works in dos and safe mode) but this causes some sort of interference when it tries to autodetect the apple usb board.

  I've read some info on sucesses with the Apple USB PRO keyboard (the non-imac keyboard) at this link here http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/2329.html

  I'm thinking maybe there is a way to disable the auto detect of the USB keyboard when win98 starts? So I can get into windows using the default 102keyboard, and play with the drivers.

  Or some drivers that someone would know might work?

Any help is appreciated, thanks,

Aggies

(PS. I'm double posting this question in both the win98 and Mac forums since both may have had experience with this same setup :)Start Free Trial
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