How to connect a keyboard to a laptop

In the modern world, no man can imagine his life without a computer and the Internet. Using laptops, computers and other gadgets, we print texts for work and study, watch movies, play games and more. But none of these devices is short-lived; they may have a normal keyboard, monitor, mouse, etc.

Can I connect a keyboard to a laptop

In this article, we will consider the case when the keyboard did not work on the laptop, and tell you how to get out of this situation.

If the buttons on your laptop keyboard started to sink, or it stopped functioning at all, then you should purchase a separate keypad in the computer hardware store and connect it via the usb connector.

How to connect a keyboard to a laptop via usb

There are two types of external keyboard:

• Wired
• Wireless

And each of them is connected via a usb connector, but before you connect it, you should study what is included in its package (driver disk, radio transmitter, batteries), which will facilitate your actions during the connection.

We connect the wireless keyboard

If you purchased a wireless keypad for your computer, then be sure to check the equipment of this device when purchasing, since it will not work without the attached parts. The wireless keypad comes with batteries and a radio transmitter.

Before connecting this device to a laptop, you need to insert working batteries into the keyboard, and then connect the radio transmitter to the laptop via a usb connector. Then the computer searches for drivers on its own and you can start working in a couple of minutes.

If this device does not start working, then you should manually find the driver using the World Wide Web. To do this, you will need to enter the model of the wireless keypad in the search engine, download and install them. After installing the drivers and connecting this device is ready for operation.

Another option for connecting a keyboard to a laptop is to connect it using Bluethooth. In all modern laptops, this function is built-in, but this method can be very difficult during connection.

Such a device is also connected using a usb connector, and then begins to function when you turn on the Bluethooth function on computer equipment. Before connecting, be sure to install the driver from the disk that came with the purchase of this device. Without installing this program, nothing will work.

Rules for connecting a wired keyboard

When connecting a wired keypad, do the following:

• Each wired keyboard panel has a wire on the end of which there is a connector for connecting it to a laptop computer. This connector must be connected to computer equipment via usb port and after a couple of minutes the keyboard should work, as usually the drivers in the system are already installed.
• If the wired keypad does not start functioning, you need to check the operation of the drivers manually. In the menu, select "Start", go to the "Taskbar" and select "Device Manager", then select the "Keyboard" item, right-click and start "Update Driver". Then a window pops up in which you should select "Automatically search for updated drivers" and the system will independently find the drivers for this device on the Internet and install them.

Attention! If a driver disk is attached to the keypad, then before you connect this device to a laptop, you must install them manually.

You can also find drivers on the Internet yourself and install them if you know the name of the keyboard.

If you have an old working keypad with a PS / 2 connector lying around, you can also connect it to your laptop using the usb connector. But for this it will be necessary to purchase a special adapter, which can be found in any computer hardware store. Also, such an adapter can be attached to a portable laptop at the time of purchase.