An Unexpected Effect of a Soarer's Converter.

[ThePillenwerfer]

A couple of weeks ago I made a Soarer's Converter using a Pro Micro to play about with a couple of old 84-key keyboards.

All went very well but I have discovered that since then my usual 105-key PS/2 keyboard is using the same mappings that I set up in the converter. This is connected directly into the computer's PS/2 port, the converter isn't plugged in and the PC has been rebooted several times. I've also tried a modern(ish) USB keyboard and that behaves in the same way.

There is nothing in the documentation about the converter or it's tools making changes to the actual computer and I haven't seen any other mention of this happening so am curious as to whether it's normal.

[Muirium]

Definitely not normal!

Soarer’s converter shows up as a regular USB keyboard on the host computer. It has no magic powers over other keyboards. Its remaps and layers and macros are all strictly internal matters.

Try another host machine or operating system. It sounds like something else is causing this.

[ThePillenwerfer]

Thank you for confirming what I thought; I didn't want to start digging around for a problem that may have been normal operation.

Before making the converter I had a fiddle with KeyMapper — it was not being able to do what I wished with that that lead me to make the converter. I THOUGHT I'd changed everything back to default but hadn't realised that it changes two registry entries and I'd only reverted one.

I must admit to feeling a bit silly now but that's better than thinking I was loosing my marbles earlier.

Thanks again.

— Joe

[Muirium]

Hey, you’re welcome. There’s nothing obvious about keyboards acting funny, not without hindsight!