The keyboard has IRQ 1 on both 98 and xp, and the keyboards I have are
all PS/2, I never have any luck with USB one's with these older systems.
And none require extra drivers either.
As you do point out the keyboards do work in the BIOS and at the command
line in DOS and Linux but when the install shell loads they fail.
The video card is great and have had it run in many different systems in
the past.
I would like to try this with a newer board with PCI express and see if
it is a bandwidth issue as my systems have at best a 133 mhz bus.
Peter Kaulback
Clint - OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com wrote:
The IRQ issue Hugh mentioned would generally make sense, but if
the keyboard is not the same IRQ on '98, then that can't be the
problem. There's very little similar with IRQ's comparing XP
to '98. Since the keyboard is a generic basic item, it could
be #1 on both OS's, but I can't remember.
It could be flaky keyboard (or port) that coincidentally worked
when it did, or maybe it's some unusual keyboard that must have
drivers other than the generic standard M$ keyboard drivers.
Could be the video card or the PCI slot it was using is about
to fail and drawing to much current or borderline "shorting
out" something, that's affecting the keyboard port.
You don't say if this is a USB or PS/2 keyboard. It could also
be settings in the BIOS, like maybe in the area where you setup
USB devices (Legacy USB Support, High-Speed only USB support,
etc.), or the area where you tell it whether or not a PnP OS is
installed, or the area where you choose between letting the OS
handle IRQ's/let the BIOS assign them. What you should do is
see if the keyboard works in the BIOS or DOS, or before the
installation gets to that point. Then that could determine if
it's a hardware/BIOS issue or OS issue.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kaulback"
With one of my computers I had to reinstall windows and the
install went
smoothly enough until the key had to be typed
in and
the keyboard would not respond, tried a different keyboard and
same
result. Tried installing win98 and Ubuntu and same result each
time.
Now this computer had 6 PCI slots filled, it's an Abit KT-7A
with 1 AGP,
6 PCI, and 1 ISA with no onboard devices. So I swapped out the
PCI
Geforce 420 and put in an older ATI Radeon 7000 AGP. Problem
solved.
Now the items on the PCI bus are a USB 2 card, a USR analog
modem, a
Audigy sound card, a D-Link network card, and a Promise SATA
card. I
wonder why the system locked out the keyboard for an install
yet when I
had all the PCI slots filled for an existing installation it
worked fine.
Any ideas?
Peter Kaulback
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