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Keyboard problem with new Motherboard - Help please!

M

Migroo

Diamond Member
Hi all.

I just installed a new motherboard with RAM and CPU into my home system.

In:
Athlon XP 1700+
256mb DDR
Gigabyte GA-7VXH (the KT266A one)

Out:
P3-667
256
Gigabyte GA-6VX7

Problem:
I just swapped the boards over, no re-install of the OS or anything. I have swapped mainboards under Win 2000 without a re-install before and the OS has just sorted it out.

Everything boots up fine, I can get into the BIOS and manipulate settings, but for some reason the keyboard does not respond when I have booted into Windows 2000. At first I thought it would be a faulty PS-2 port or keyboard itself, yet threw that idea out of the window as the keyboard works in the BIOS!

Any ideas? I'm stuck as of course I cannot input my password to enter the OS, and therefore I cant access device manager... 🙁
HELP!

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Installing a new motherboard without reformatting is never a good idea even the chipset is the same. While Windows is suppose to cleanly uninstall old drivers and reinstall new drives, it never truly happens smoothly. Even if it does work, there will be enough orphaned DLLs and registry keys to cause problems down the road.

Backup your data, reformat, and reinstall everything from scratch.

Windogg
 
OK thanks Windogg. Yeah I guessed it wasnt a good idea, but since it worked before the lazy git side of me won out 🙂

I'll see if I can recover the OS, then backup, then completely re-install as I wouldnt like to swap the mobo back again just to get access to the OS to be able to backup!

Thanks a lot for the help 🙂
 
It is always a good idea to do a clean install when you make a major hardware upgrade like that. However, I am not one to listen to the rules, and I have done such several times without a clean install of the OS. I have never had such problems, or any for that matter. Anyway, see if you can access the task manager. Run the accessability program that allows you to type with your keyboard. If that doesn't work, a clean install may be a good idea.
 
Thanks for the tip bovinicus 🙂

I'm loathe to re-install as I have just got my system back to normal after a recent re-install... 🙁

Oh well I should do one anyway. Only takes about 30 min with Windows 2000 anyway 😀

Thanks.
 
OK, I re-installed and the keyboard now works 🙂

Thanks for the help Windogg and Bovinicus.

I am posting this from work as my WLAN card (which provides all networking (and therefore internet access)) is refusing it's drivers 🙁

Wish me luck sorting that out! 😀
 
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