Re: Keyboard Still Won't Work on Startup

I understand that you think my keyboard port is shorted out. But I don't
understand the rest - what is a PS/2 keyboard or mouse? I have the old kind
of keyboard and the mouse connects to a different port. I don't know the
names of these connectors. How do I know if it is shorted out? If it is why
does it start working again after I do a disk scan? Also, I think I'm
already using a serial port for my mouse and keyboard.


"philo" <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"KIR" <kenandkatherine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Re: keyboard Won't Work on Startup, posted on 1/13/08.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the keyboard driver but the problem
continues.
The only way I can get it to work is to do an error-check (disk check)
after
a hard shutdown. I really don't want to have to resort to using a USB
keyboard as all my USB ports are already in use. My machine is about 7
years
old but has never given me any trouble until now. Any thoughts at this
point? Please read 1/13 post for important details. Thanks.

Ken



I had already given you an answer in that the ps/2 port appeared to be
bad.

Sometimes that happens due to an internal short...and one can use *either*
a
ps/2 keyboard *or* a ps/2 mouse...
but not both.

If that is what happened...then the only way you can get away from using
an
add'l USB device...
would be to use a serial mouse. (And this of course assumes, that removing
the ps/2 mouse allows your KB to work)

A cheapie USB hub could be added otherwise




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