Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards

You powered the pc down before connect ps/2 keyboard right? Sorry to ask but it's surprising how many people forget this when used to usb devices.
Also many Asus motherboard owner have report problem using IBM keyboard on ps/2. They are power hungry keyboard and seem Asus don't provide enough juice for them over the ps/2 connection.

 

That blank orange ISO enter is sweet... I now realise what my blank orange 2.75 Shift is all about! I may be interested fuus. I have a one of those media keys (play) if you are interested in a trade.

 

I have no interest in media keys Lenny and Margo did ask first!

 

No probs - I only asked because Margo did say to scrap it

 

yeah no im out on the orange enter, i not got the caps i thought I had when I looked in the cap box.

 

The ISO enter is pretty cool. Too bad I hate ISO.

 

comeagain?

 

even worse ! I plugged it in the usb port

I wouldn't mind switching to ps2 but... if there is one flaw that I found so far, it's that the cable is extremely short. I think i just have to use my usb extension cable




also, being 87 keys, there's no slash (canadian multilingual). Mmmmm. That's annoying

 

Oh, I was talking to el2k.

knuck, maybe you could try US Intl keymap instead if you got ANSI keyboard, I think CD layout is assuming ISO so you are missing a key physically on ANSI keyboard.

 

About to buy the first mechanical keyboard and have narrowed it down to the following features:

Ten keyless (don't have room for a big keyboard and I can't remember the last time I used a numpad)

Mx brown switches (meant to be a balance between gaming and typing?)

With that in mind should I go for this or wait until it is available and go for this. Do you have any other suggestions and does anyone have the coolermaster quickfire rapid who can give feedback.

Thanks and sorry for ruining the keycap conversation

 

but i need é è à and ï since I type in french all the time. I really need the slash, though. Mmmmmm ...

 

I did indeed, have tried a few times.

Are there any setting in bios at all to do with PS/2 or anything?

If it is the fact that my motherboard doesn't give enough power to PS/2 then that really sucks.
Sadly only 2 PC's in this house and both use Asus mobos.

Shall have to wait until I go to a friends to test on another computer....

I do also have the G80-1000 coming in the post later this week, this is also DIN, will it require the same amount of power? Therefore rendering it useless with my mobo aswell?

Having to buy a new mobo to keep up with my keyboard needs would be kinda annoying, but I'd be willing to do it

Thanks for any info

 

There's nothing like a new board - I'd go for the Quickfire Rapid (the one in stock) - the OEM is the same as Filco which means that the quality is the same (very high) but for a lower price! A few here either have that or had it in the past - they're highly recommended!

 

knuck US Intl has all needed for French, which is why I guessed you were using CD multi. They are just a bit different keymap, and US Intl use dead key for some accent charachter so it might take a bit of getting used to but might be more suitable in long run on ANSI board.
I even had some keycap set made up for US Intl, you can see what it offer...


el2k, I don't know about that motherboard but I just remember some people talking about that problems with IBM M on GH some time ago and they all had asus so they made such a conclusion. If you find it works on other system maybe you should look for one of those SDL cable with active usb adapter built in, some seller had them on ebay. The G80 should work fine.

 

Thanks mate, I was google searching after my last post and the only info I could find was those GH posts where they were using various different Asus boards and no luck with getting their model M's to work once in Windows.

And.. THESE?

 

I just tried it and it's no good. It only has one of the accents that I need and about a third of the special characters french multilingual has. I want to download the keyboard layout editor from microsoft but I'm downloading at less than 1KB right now... I don't know what's going on


I also made the switch to chrome recently and I noticed I can't press ctrl+B to type in bold or use any other board related shorcuts. This is annoying

edit: WAIT A MINUTE

I just switched back to canadian multilingual ...and... the key next to "1" now makes a slash (and a backslash with shift). WTF. K I really need to plug my blackwidow back in because I'm super confused right now. I don't think any of my keyboards ever did this


oh well

 

That was what I was explain about dead key, so in US Intl to get è for example you would have to type ` then e and it combines it. It uses these trick instead of having a key for every possible thing.

 

that's what french canadian keyboard does. There is a single key for é è à on the canadian multilingual layout however.

As for the slash... I really don't get it. It used to do a different character and now it does exactly what I need. The razer does it , too. Weird

 

Hopefully a quick question / solution - a couple of my blues are less clicky than the others - I took the switches apart and saw this:



The metal 'loop' looks bent closed a bit - compare with one that is fully clicky



which is more 'open' - could this be the cause of my issues? If so, is it fixable?

Cheers

George

Higher res here:

Fully clicky - http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8471/8361534793_d3ab9af17a_k.jpg

Not so clicky - http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8509/8361534941_028633dce7_k.jpg

 

I also had the same problem after dismantling one of my blues. Couldn't see anything out of place with the loop or contact though.