Keyboard Quits When Starts / Both Usb & Ps2
Aug 24, 2006
Both usb and ps2 keyboards work when going into bios or using a OS on a disk, yet will not work after windows boots. Every other thing works great usb mouse, joystick, etc. I have uninstalled keyboard in safe mode, then rebooted. I tried a repair with OS disk. No software problems. Running lots of mal-ware protection. Using on screen keyboard is getting old fast. Has been this way for awhile as I keep expecting other problems and then I'll have to do a OS reinstall last resort.But no other problem have surfaced, so I keep putting it off.
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May 16, 2008
Off and on over the last couple of months, while typing anything with my keyboard, I'll be right in the middle of a sentence when, suddenly my keyboard starts spitting out pure gibberish. The characters are totally alien and strange looking. I restart my computer and it straightens out.Does anyone have any clues as to what might cause this bizzar behavior?
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Mar 2, 2008
I've a DEll 2350 which recently has new hard drive installed, and which functions very well 90% of the time with Win XP. WHen it ceases to function properly, the screen goes dead for an instant, and a full page of instruction appears indicating that I have 29 seconds toopt for a choice of re starts..including "last good working start up".. or safe mode or" allow the 29 seconds to elapse" and, "wait and see" ( my words)
This did occaur before the new hard drive was installed.. and if I don't click on any choice, eventually it will complete the boot up and the screen will show my desk top. Sometimes it takes only a few minutes: other times it may take a dozen or more "recycles", wherein it goes through the 29 second "wait" period, and the DEll l,ogo appears, and it reverts again to the recycle step... when it does bring the desktop back on, I can usually "stay on line" for hours and suddenly it will go off again.I've just recently added this computer through a router to a newer DEll that has been on DSL for some months and am sure that has absolutely nothing to do with this intermittent.Am I looking at a power supply glitch?.an over heating problem?.
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I have a friends PC, a gateway P4 2.6, winxp home. The mouse and keyboard up and died. He had a kvm switch, the electronic kind when it stopped functioning. I have tried usb, ps2 everything. The keyboard works on bootup, so I can get into bios etc... but when it gets to the windows screen, nothing. No mouse or keyboard. Safe mode is the same thing. Dont want to format and reinstall windows. On that note, I did try a repair, when it asks for admin password it wont accept it. Says invalid admin password.. The password IS windows admin password though. With no mouse even in safemode, and windows not accepting my admin password during repair,
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I just finished assembling my new build. It boots and I can get to the BIOS. I even have it booting from the DVD drive so I can load Win XP.However, when I get to the Windows Setup and it asks me if I want to setup windows(press enter), Repair(some other key), quit(F3) my keyboard won't work. I hit "Enter" because I want to install XP and nothing happens. It is not responding to my keyboard strokes.
This is strange because the keyboard works in the BIOS.
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my system has been acting up today. I got home from class and tried to install my Microsoft Visual Studio, it asked me to restart after the installation. When I did, right when it got to the desktop it said something about a registry problem has been restored and the system has been recovered. Something along those lines. Getting back on the subject, 5 seconds after it reaches the desktop it crashes. Not a hard crash, just a restart, but it crashes none-the-less. Is there a way to get around this without reformatting?(I even tried running in Safe Mode, same problem.) I can't seem to find a way to fix it if I can't even get to my desktop.
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