[rescue] Best brains:  Dead keyboard ports on PC hardware

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Tue Jun 19 09:20:48 CDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:02:45AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> When USB is "disabled" at the MB level, the OS won't se the USB hardware 
> attached (the port is, uhm, "disabled").
> 
> Besides, there is no conclusive statement that the MB supports USB keybaord/
> mouse at the BIOS level if it were enabled...

Stick in a USB PCI card that is supported by W2K. When it boots, Windows
will see your keyboard and mouse.

Geoff.

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