keyboard stopped working. help! *FIXED*

[Junin]

i just bought a new case and moved all of my computers innards into it. now my keybord doesnt work in my os [xp], tho it works in bios. windows reports no problems. mobo is asus a7m266d. kb is just a ms keyboard. excuse my typing. onscreen keyboard is slow.

edit: the keyboard is ps2 and a pretty decent one. i tried a different ps2 keyboard and it does not work either. could i have damaged the ps2 port when i transferred my hardware to the new case? forget to plug something in? the keyboard WORKS in my bios

 

[DX2Player]

Is it a good keyboard? If its just a cheap one go buy a new one

 

[Junin]

bump before i fall back on reformatting

 

[corkyg]

It is possible you could have damaged the PS/2 port. However, if that were the case, it wouldnot show up as good in BIOS. You might check Device Manager and see what it shows under "Keyboard." If it looks good - try removing it, rebooting and let Windows find it again.

 

[Junin]

just tried that, corky. didnt work =/

do you think reformatting and reinstalling might help?

 

[DynaOne]

format it - re-install. The keyboard is working - your MS OS is not

 

[Junin]

hmmm

i set mybios to boot from cd, but when it says to press any key to boot from cd, it doesnt accept my keyboard commands

 

[skyking]

I would do some investigation of the bios settings themselves. Look at settings referring to plug and play, advanced settings, etc.

 

[Junin]

Woohooo!

Who would have thought that the H.D.D. LED would have caused my keyboard not to work?

Sorry for wasting space on this forum. I found what I was looking for on the asus website. It is a known issue (but they've updated their manual) that the LED light for the IDE (HDD) was incorrectly labeled. (ASUS A7M266-D)

I unplugged the led power cord and it started working again.