Hello all!

I'm at the end of my rope, yesterday evening my Dad's Asus A7V motherboard's PS/2 ports died. We can't use the keyboard or the mouse. I put on a USB keyboard and mouse and we get the same problem.

We can get into the bios but thats it beyond that point we can't use the keyboard. The machine gflashes up the Win ME logo, then asks about safe mode but as wecan't do nething about it the machine tries to load into safe mode and just crashes after a few seconds.

What I don't understand is that I can get in to the bios and use the keyboard, but beoynd that point nothing.

I'm really puzzled by this problem, ne1 got any ideas?

Behemoth

check setting for "OS Plug N Play" and try to disable it so BIOS "keeps the hand" on hardware configuration. You should also have a option for USB Keyboard ... you should check for it as it gives you the option to enable usb keyboard by the bios ;( and access it before it is managed by a OS.

Oooh, that's not good. You probably need to take it into a pc repair shop and see if they can fix it, or see about exchanging the board.

I'm no idiot when it come to computer, I checked all the bios options for USB and PNP O/S, neither beyaboard worked.

I left the machine for while and came back to to it yesterday, turned on and the thing worked. Plugged the usb keyboard back in and neither one worked again, so we ordered a new mothe board and which should arrive ay home by the time I get home from college.

The replacment, well with any luck for the faulty board will end up in my machine replacing my aging Slot Athlon system, wish I coud afford a a 1.2 Ghz T Bird, but looks like I'm goingto have to make do with a 900 Duron.