USB keyboard issue.

[ShallowHal]

Please excuse my foray into the "Highly Technical Forum" but I thought some of you may be interested in the recent problem I had with my keyboard. I'm a rank amateur compared to may of you.
I built a new system and was using the USB port to plug in my keyboard. Everything was fine (two days) until I lost my video. The mystery was that sometimes, after rebooting, the video would come back. Long story short, after many hours of fiddling around, the problem went away (I won't say solved yet), when I stopped using the USB port for the keyboard. The BIOS was set to shutdown if it detected any errors. It wasn't detecting the keyboard and would shutdown. Why it would work periodically I don't know. Any ideas?

Shuttle AK31 mobo
XP1700
Geforce2 64mb ddr vid card
CrucialPC2100 256mb memory
Logitech keyboard
Blah Blah Blah

 

[Palek]

Well, I am probably no more "professional" or "experienced" than you, but I find it hard to believe that you video problem and your keyboard problem are connected. AGP cards are known to sometimes slip out of the slot a little bit and stop functioning properly or only start up with every other boot. Maybe you somehow moved your video card while trying to fix the keyboard issue and it popped back in the slot. If the card is not fitted in the AGP slot properly, even the slightest touch of the case or just the vibration of moving parts might cause the video card to slip out.

Also, you may know this already, but USB keyboards do not always work with all motherboards at default settings. Sometimes you have to tell the BIOS whether you want USB keyboard support by the BIOS or the OS. That is the case with my motherboard anyway, and by default it was set to OS. With that setting your USB keyboard only starts working once the OS loads the appropriate drivers (I think).

Hope this helps... Probably not... Anyway...

 

[ShallowHal]

Thanks for the reply. I know that some of these problems from left field are frowned upon around here but oh well. Anyway back to the subject, when I use a standard keyboard and mouse connection, computer boots up just fine. When I use the fancy schmancy USB Logitech keyboard and USB mouse, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's not so much a video problem, rather, the system doesn't like something that going on.

 

[Zach]

Yes it's not highly technical, no it shouldn't be here. Your only problem is the USB, since your computer isn't POSTing it aint thr video's fault... go to General Hardware.