Keyboard not recognised.

[petersmart]

A few weeks ago one of my computers suddenly played up.

It started as normal but once windows was up and running it all froze.

Took me a few starts to notice the bleep and the warning on the startup screen which said "Keyboard not recognised" or something like that.

I use a PS2 connection for the keyboard and mouse but changing to USB keyboard still produced the same warning.

I couldn't get into the BIOS because the "Keyboard not recognised" and couldn't get another MB because its too old.

So it looked like a case of scrap it until I came across a PCI card which allowed you to operate a second KB on a computer.

They were fairly expensive if bought from Amazon but I got one on Ebay for £10.00.

I plugged it in but again up came "Keyboard not recognised" BUT when Windows was up and running it sudenly went through a series of installations and suddenly I have a working PC again with KB and mouse back in business.

I still can't access the BIOS because the KB only works from within Windows but it saved my PC from the scrapyard for a while at least.

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[neil_g]

would kinda make sense as the addon card would only be recognised once in windows.

sounds like the motherboard is on its way to the scrapy.

 

[petersmart]

would kinda make sense as the addon card would only be recognised once in windows.

sounds like the motherboard is on its way to the scrapy.

Yeah but the odd thing is only the KB was affected absolutely nothing else.

When I've had MBs go in the past you usually get major problems with a lot of things, but in this case it's just the one specific item.

But if it saves it for a while I'll be happy.

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