I hope somebody's had the same experience and can advise...
I recently transferred a box from my wife to my sons, changing only the peripheral hardware. The motherboard (FIC PA-2013), RAM (256 meg), sound card (SB-16 PCI), and chip (K6-2/500 mhz) were all working fine in the original setup, but when I added a different CD-ROM drive, HDD, floppy, and video card, the computer will boot, but doesn't accept any input from the keyboard.
The keyboard LEDs flash when the power initially come on and this particular keyboard worked on another machine. Just to make sure, I tried two other functioning keyboards and they did the same thing.
I haven't had the chance to test it yet, but the original configuration used an AGP video card whereas in the current configuration I'm using a PCI card. Is is possible that there is an interrupt conflict caused by the different cards (which I assume would have different interrupt assignments). I can't enter setup because of the keyboard problem, but I'm wondering if putting the AGP card back in the slot might help? I've tried moving all the current cards from slot to slot with not change.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I recently transferred a box from my wife to my sons, changing only the peripheral hardware. The motherboard (FIC PA-2013), RAM (256 meg), sound card (SB-16 PCI), and chip (K6-2/500 mhz) were all working fine in the original setup, but when I added a different CD-ROM drive, HDD, floppy, and video card, the computer will boot, but doesn't accept any input from the keyboard.
The keyboard LEDs flash when the power initially come on and this particular keyboard worked on another machine. Just to make sure, I tried two other functioning keyboards and they did the same thing.
I haven't had the chance to test it yet, but the original configuration used an AGP video card whereas in the current configuration I'm using a PCI card. Is is possible that there is an interrupt conflict caused by the different cards (which I assume would have different interrupt assignments). I can't enter setup because of the keyboard problem, but I'm wondering if putting the AGP card back in the slot might help? I've tried moving all the current cards from slot to slot with not change.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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