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| 451954 | 2006-05-04 02:11:00 | Hi there guys and girls. I have a bit of a problem. This person has just droped off there computer to have some viruses removed I have pluged all my keyboards and screen and stuff into it but the keyboard wont work. I have a mouse that works but no keyboard. I am running a Micro soft wireless set up but haveloaded drivers and everything to no avail. Anyone got any ideas. Any info greatly appreicated. Thanks Tim |
CaptinMoor (8392) | ||
| 451955 | 2006-05-04 04:07:00 | Flat batteries? Try a kb that plugs into a ps/2 or USB port. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 451956 | 2006-05-04 04:44:00 | Press the connect buttons ;) | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 451957 | 2006-05-04 05:19:00 | Hmmmm... Wireless things are always a hassle. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 451958 | 2006-05-04 05:37:00 | Borrow/buy (cheap on trademe) a P/S connecting keyboard, all [modern] computers support them standard. If its an older computer it may have a DIN connection (as my neighbours one has) | Myth (110) | ||
| 451959 | 2006-05-04 07:15:00 | Thanks Guys but I have a PS keyboard tried that Tried every single keyboard under the sun and installed and removed the drivers for each. Starting to lose it. Any help. | CaptinMoor (8392) | ||
| 451960 | 2006-05-04 07:55:00 | Use a USB KB, maybe their PS2 port is stuffed. | pctek (84) | ||
| 451961 | 2006-05-04 08:55:00 | Well thats what I have triwd but only the mouse works when I plug that in. Its reall pissing me off. PS keyboard doesnt work when plug in and USB dosnt work. Really hard to figure out. Any more help appreicate | CaptinMoor (8392) | ||
| 451962 | 2006-05-04 10:58:00 | If you're using an older OS (eg Win98) with a USB keyboard, it might pay to check the drivers are working, as the K/B might not be being picked up by the OS. Try reloading them. Also check that USB keyboard is enabled in BIOS (if that's possible given that pressing DEL may be a problem in itself :D) Anything beyond that, it's probably going to be new PC time. |
SmegEd (8440) | ||
| 451963 | 2006-05-04 22:40:00 | Get them to drop in their keyboard just in case . Personally speaking, if I were servicing computers I would always have both pluggable (Din/PS2) and USB keyboards to hand, though it sounds like you do anyway . Wireless can be too flaky, especially on a PC that you already know to be munged, so why waste time installing drivers etc on a crook computer? . Other than that it soumds like a socket/MB problem . As an alternative approach take out the HDD and install it as a slave on another box then run your AV and antispyware processes to clean it up in case there is something there that is stopping it . Once clean you could then install it as the master in another pc, boot and see if you can access the bios and use a keyboard . That would tell you if the original MB is stuffed . Just don't let it try to boot to Windows or you may bugger the original drivers . If that happened you would have to get to device manager, delete all drivers then let it find the correct ones again on reboot in its original box . There are always options . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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