The Strangest thing that happened to me...

[kxy]

Like everyone else I jump on that andara bare bone system from overstock.
The Post

After days of waiting, it finally got here. Now I put everything in very carefully, and the machine POST; and using a previous HD, it boots into windows nicely. Soon I realized that neither my keyboard nor mouse is working. I unpluged it and pluged back in. Still doesn't work. except the mouse and keyboard is not detected. I mean the keyboard light didn't even light up! So I thought maybe I fried both mouse and keyboard at the same time, I plugged back into my old system, they worked fine. SO what is wrong with this? Anyone else has this happened to them? Think something is shorted out? How can this be a defective mobo if everythin else worked fine?

 

[splice]

Did you plug them into the correct ps2 ports?

 

[Electric Amish]

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[Electric Amish]

Could be that the PS/2 ports are fried.

amish

 

[kxy]

Yes, I even thought maybe the mobo is messed up, so I switched keyboard and mouse, still didn't work. Then again I switched back to my old system, it worked fine. Switch back didn't work. I did this for about 20 times.

 

[kxy]

Electric Amish,

Both of them? Really? I just got them.

 

[kxy]

Anyone else got some ideas, before I ship it back? You think both connectors might be shorted? The strange thing is, it didn't give any error msg, nothing.

 

[Topochicho]

Ummmm.... actually I think he meant the ports on the motherboard itself, not the keybord and mouse.

Can you get into the bios when the machine posts? If the keyboard works then, then its going to be a problem elsewere.

 

[kxy]

The keyboard does not work, period. I tried and tried. I mean the 3 lights didn't even flash up upon POST. Actually not even one of them lights up. I had never heard of this happened to anyone else. There isn't a way to debug is there?

 

[kxy]

Unwilling to waiting to see what happened, I took my tursty mulit-meter, and test out the voltage at each end, it turnes out there is a short. Heh.... I was insured that they tested out every single system prior to the shipment. Well, we can always blame on the ups guy.