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First post, by mindx2

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I just upgraded and these are my new specs:

ASUS P5Q-Pro LGA 775 Intel P45
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz - Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro 92mm
OCZ Platinum (2 x 1GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel
Visontek Radeon 4850 PCI-e
2x Western Digital Raptor WD360GD 36.7GB SATA in RAID 0
Western Digital 250GB SATA
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
Logitech Corded Media Keyboard PS/2

I started installing all my programs. However, I love retro gaming but can't get DosBox to recognize my keyboard. It loads up just fine but at the Dos prompt I can't type in anything. I can change the ini file to mount C: and the CD-Rom drive but again when I start DosBox it just doesn't recognize any keystrokes! I've unistalled, cleaned the registry, and re-installed sereral times to no avail. I even tried a few frontends (D-Fend Reloaded) but none let me use my keyboard. The keyboard works for everything else (CRYSIS, Email, Word, etc.) just not DosBox.

The DosBox version is 0.72 and my keyboard is a PS/2 Logitech Media Keyboard not USB.

I've used DosBox for many years and never had this problem. I've used the same keyboard with DosBox before. I've checked the DosBox forums here at Vorgons but the only keyboard issues talked about are using different language layouts that cause different character keystrokes.

Anyone care to guess what my issue is?

Reply 2 of 6, by mindx2

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I've installed the drivers from Logitech's website and everything works great... except Dosbox. I'm not sure what you mean by HID? I've gone into the Device Manager and my keyboard shows up and states working properly.

Reply 3 of 6, by wd

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hid=human interface device

Try lowering the priority settings in your dosbox.conf

Reply 4 of 6, by mindx2

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Only thing in my HID is my joystick and mouse (Logitech Extreme Pro and my Trackball mouse). The keyboard shows up under Keyboards. I also tried lowering the priority but none of the settings worked.

Reply 5 of 6, by mindx2

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You have got to be kidding me?!!!! It was ZoneAlarm the whole time. It stopped DosBox from "monitoring keystrokes". I changed the settings in ZoneAlarm and everything works fine now. Man that was a frustrating two days.... banging my head against the wall over something so simple!!!