Keyboard Issue

[Guest Acedude]

i built this system about a month ago, and it's been pretty stable. so tonight, i was doing the usual and playing WoW, when i noticed that my keystrokes are becoming less sensitive (as in that it sometimes takes me 4-5 presses to type a letter). a few minutes later, my keyboard went complete dead. being a typical windows user, i restarted my computer, but i could not get past the log in screen with the nonresponsive keyboard. the mouse works fine.

 

so i swap out to another keyboard, which works on another machine... and no go on my machine.

 

then i decided to unplug keyboard and see if the bios will give me a no keyboard detected message and stop me from going further... except there was no warning, and i'm back at the windows log in screen.

 

hrmm... maybe it's a cmos problem. so i promptly cleared cmos via jumper. and now i'm at the "default cmos loaded" message after post, unable to press "del" to get in setup nor "f1" to continue.

 

so i'm wondering, do i have a bad ps/2 port? or is there some other problem that i'm not seeing? thanks in advance

[Raphie]

are you running a raid stripe?

I had exactly the same problem and it was caused by a damaged partition table, where too many cycles where " stolen" in re-reading data. Deleting partition and re-installing XP solved my problem

[kukulcan]

You could try a PS/2 to USB adapter to plug your keyboard into a USB port.

[twigboy]

hah I have keyboard issue when im playing FPS's. When ever I hold down a button down too long the keyboard will stick. Just unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in fixes it for me, it a usb tho. I havent switched keyboards yet.

[Guest Acedude]

nope, i'm not running raid. just the raptor and a couple IDE drives. and it was just that much harder to reformat the drive when you can't change the boot order, as i just found out

 

don't have an ps2->usb converter nor a usb keyboard, but will try it when i get one.

 

any other suggestions?

[nitemareglitch]

I personally would go into the device manager, blow out all your mouse and keyboard drivers, along with the ports com and lpt ports, shut down. pull power plug, hold in power button to clear caps, plug back in, reboot and see if it helps;

[Guest Acedude]

the thing is, right now i'm stuck on the POST screen, showing my memory/drives and that my cmos is restored to default. i can't hit F1 to go to OS or DEL to get in setup =(

[nitemareglitch]

On the BIOS screen I would just hold the power button in till it shuts off, then repower.

[Guest Acedude]

restart numerous times already, and it continues to show that i have to hit a key to get past that screen, which i can't do =/

[Guest Acedude]

last bump before i RMA the board back.

[Reinvented]

It's a Wireless PS/2? Maybe it's time to replace the batteries in your keyboard dude...

[Guest Acedude]

i swapped out 2 other keyboards to test it, and the mobo still can't detect it. like i stated before, it's also quite weird that the POST does not give a keyboard error when i had no keyboard plugged in. that led me to believe that the motherboard itself is the suspect.

 

more suggestions are always helpful though, just in case i missed something. but i really really need to get my computer up and running asap.