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no keyboard detected

RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
edited October 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
when I start my PC, I get an error message about 2 seconds into the boot process. The message: No keyboard present, press F1 to continue, or add a keyboard and restart. Then it skips the message and boots except the keyboard does not work. It started after my pc crashed defragging in safe mode. help.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Have you checked to make sure that the keyboard is securely plugged in?

    Do you have an additional keyboard you can try?

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    neither works

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  • TashTash Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Are you plugging it into a usb or the keyboard slot?

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    PS/2 keyboard slot

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    USB ports can "burn out", so if it's plugged into a USB port, try a different USB port.

    EDIT: ps/2 port, nm

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    it skips the message and boots without keyboard plugged in

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I had the same problem on an old file server that crashed. The mobo wouldn't recognize a keyboard. I tried to flash the bios and reset everything, but it still didn't work. I eventually chalked it up to a bad motherboard and/or ps2 port. I know that's not what you want to hear exactly, but it's just what happened with my similar situation.

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    See if you can get a working keyboard from a friend, or borrow one from the office.
    Use a USB keyboard, or use a PS/2 keyboard with a USB adapter (easy to come by, I have like 10 of these in a drawer somewhere).
    See if using a USB port in lieu of the PS/2 port solves your issue.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    would a usb keyboard work

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  • enderwiggin13enderwiggin13 Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The USB keyboard should conceivably work if the problem is limited to the PS/2 port.

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  • TashTash Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Try the usb keyboard and see if it does.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Yay!
    Usb works.
    Thanks :)

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