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

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Jun 19 10:13:08 CDT 2007


>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/06/19 Tue AM 09:20:48 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Best brains: CBCB Dead keyboard ports on PC
hardware

>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.

Good answer!

Lionel



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