jay_hamill
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Keyboard Stopped Working
My keyboard was working perfectly fine. I was trying to get into safe mode by pressing F8 and my keyboard hasn't worked since. I now get a No Keyboard Detected Press F1 error when booting up. When Windows boots up both my keyboard and mouse do not work. I have a Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard. The keyboard is connected via PS2. There is an F Lock key on the keyboard and when I press this while the computer is booting up the light goes on and off. The F Lock is on so that the F1-F12 keys work. When I connect the keyboard through USB I do not get the No Keyboard Detected error and the keyboard and my mouse work once in Windows. The problem I have with this is that I run two operating systems and the keyboard doesn't work through usb until windows starts up so I can't choose which OS I want to boot up. I also can't get into the BIOS when connected through USB. I need the keyboard working through PS2. I tried different USB-PS2 adapters to eliminate the adapter as the problem but it doesn't work. Can someone please help me with this one? Thanks.
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Dead keyboard. Replace with ps-2 keyboard for $5-$10.
Probably the easiest fix is to buy a new keyboard with ps/2 connector . .
I run two operating systems but use two pairs of HDs. I do not like parrtitions. Try the following boot manager and see if it will allow you to choose the partitions. It fails once a year. All that happens is it just loads to one of the HDs. I then re run the program.
http://www.osloader.com/download.htm
http://www.osloader.com/download.htm
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I have fixed the problem. I reset the CMOS and the keyboard is now working through PS2. Thanks for all the suggestions.
Cool----I was going to say if it worked as usb it should work as ps/2 or you m/b would have been the culprit not a dead keyboard mouse.
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