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

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Jun 19 13:52:58 CDT 2007


>From: Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net>
>Date: 2007/06/19 Tue AM 11:44:13 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Best brains:  Dead keyboard ports on PC hardware

>> Oh ...   it just occurred to me that the problem here is until the USB
>> card is "installed" by Windows, there'll be no way to respond to the
>> dialogs Windows throws up in the course of installing it.
>
>Cut and paste the characters into the dialog boxes using the ps/2 mouse 
>(assuming that still works).

The "Accessability options" would help as well, if he had a way to turn them on ;^) (He'd get an on-screen keyboard that he could hunt-and-peck on with a mouse)

Lionel



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