Several days have passed and this is STILL not posted.
(Peter
it's being BCC'd to you).
----- Original Message -----
The IRQ issue Hugh mentioned would generally make sense, but
if
the keyboard is not the same IRQ on '98, then that can't be
the
problem. There's very little similar with IRQ's comparing
XP
to '98. Since the keyboard is a generic basic item, it
could
be #1 on both OS's, but I can't remember.
It could be flaky keyboard (or port) that coincidentally
worked
when it did, or maybe it's some unusual keyboard that must
have
drivers other than the generic standard M$ keyboard
drivers.
Could be the video card or the PCI slot it was using is
about
to fail and drawing to much current or borderline
"shorting
out" something, that's affecting the keyboard port.
You don't say if this is a USB or PS/2 keyboard. It could
also
be settings in the BIOS, like maybe in the area where you
setup
USB devices (Legacy USB Support, High-Speed only USB
support,
etc.), or the area where you tell it whether or not a PnP OS
is
installed, or the area where you choose between letting the
OS
handle IRQ's/let the BIOS assign them. What you should do
is
see if the keyboard works in the BIOS or DOS, or before the
installation gets to that point. Then that could determine
if
it's a hardware/BIOS issue or OS issue.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusCom
puting.com
http://www.Comput
ersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kaulback"
With one of my computers I had to reinstall windows and the
install went smoothly enough until the key had to be typed
in and the keyboard would not respond, tried a different
keyboard and same result. Tried installing win98 and
Ubuntu and same result each time.
Now this computer had 6 PCI slots filled, it's an Abit
KT-7A
with 1 AGP,
6 PCI, and 1 ISA with no onboard devices. So I swapped out
the
PCI
Geforce 420 and put in an older ATI Radeon 7000 AGP.
Problem
solved.
Now the items on the PCI bus are a USB 2 card, a USR analog
modem, a
Audigy sound card, a D-Link network card, and a Promise
SATA
card. I
wonder why the system locked out the keyboard for an
install
yet when I
had all the PCI slots filled for an existing installation
it
worked fine.
Any ideas?
Peter Kaulback
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