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Is my computer going down the toilet?

EvlhxrdoodEvlhxrdood
edited March 2007 in Hardware
I wake up this morning, my BIOS screen is up...


"Detecting VIA RAID Array.....press tab for setup"

I noticed my keyboard was non responsive!

So I have to HARD reboot the system, and after it clears my BIOS screens, it reboots. My keyboard still does not work(so I cannot enter BIOS)

I try a different keyboard, same thing, now I am thinking, WTF it's dead.

It finally boots up XP, my mouse works, but the keyboard was still dead, so I could not log in.
After a few restarts, for some reason it starts working normally.

I really thought my Motherboard was fubared. :badgrin:

Why did my Comptuer do this?

Comments

  • anantha92anantha92
    no idea. Computers are mysterious things even though us humans created aevery bit of it. a story of my own experience: My com kept ahving a Hfs+ partiotion error when i tried booting into the osx drive. It displayed HFS + PARTITION ERROR so i went to get my gnome cd, i turned around and the system had booted into osx. I was like wtf?!?!
  • FedeArgFedeArg
    anantha92 wrote:
    no idea. Computers are mysterious things even though us humans created aevery bit of it. a story of my own experience: My com kept ahving a Hfs+ partiotion error when i tried booting into the osx drive. It displayed HFS + PARTITION ERROR so i went to get my gnome cd, i turned around and the system had booted into osx. I was like wtf?!?!
    I'm in agreement with you :)

    PC'S can be sometimes mysterious :) try with other keyboard :)
  • BashBash
    Is this a PS/2 keyboard or a USB keyboard?

    If you tried both keyboards with PS/2, chances are the PS/2 port is bad. If both were USB, then you might want to try looking for PCI USB Card.
  • EvlhxrdoodEvlhxrdood
    :arrow: PS/2

    So if my PS/2 port goes out again, can I just plug in a USB keyboard and be able to use it without installing any special drivers?
  • adragonsadragons
    Yep. Every os has drivers for usb keybrd/mice.
  • BODBOD
    DOS doesn't :P... at least not without usning bios emulation.
  • QQ
    I suspect he intended to mean "Every modern OS", or something similar.

    -Q
  • EvlhxrdoodEvlhxrdood
    Q wrote:
    I suspect he intended to mean "Every modern OS", or something similar.

    -Q

    Yeah XPpro

    Cool, now I need a USB keyboard! :(
  • WipeoutWipeout
    Evlhxrdood wrote:
    Q wrote:
    I suspect he intended to mean "Every modern OS", or something similar.

    -Q

    Yeah XPpro

    Cool, now I need a USB keyboard! :(

    That, or I don't if they make these, but a PS/2 to USB switcher. I know they make em the other way around though.
  • BashBash
    I found one at Newegg.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812199008
    $3.59
  • FedeArgFedeArg
    Bash wrote:
    I found one at Newegg.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812199008
    $3.59
    NewEgg and it`s incredible prizes/deals :)
  • alexzarachalexzarach
    There are usb keyboards available, if they will work on your pc:

    http://www.fentek-ind.com/kbmtpusb.htm with mouse, or
    http://www.fentek-ind.com/usb.htm#kbmhh without.


    Also, there is a ps2-usb adapter at
    http://www.fentek-ind.com/y-adapter.htm#usb
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