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# can anyone help? - keyboard stopped working
my comp crashed - froze up as it has done a few times laelt when i have a save dialog box open and try to change the name i'm saving it as. Also just trying to click a filename once and rename it that way does the same.

i'm on win me - i restarted and now keyboard stopped working. i've tried a different keyboard, and tried adding new hardware to reinstall drivers, but no luck.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:13, archived)
# Have you tried turning it off
and turning it back on again?

/tech support

Edit: Ah, you're using ME. That's your problem there mate.
(bomba, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:16, archived)
# yup
my brand new machine arrived (a year odd ago) with me first thing it did b 4 anything, screen went black and it exploded... install 2000 and never look back
(doktored, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:21, archived)
# What OS
I assume XP. If so sometimes it takes ages to read drives (so it can list available drives).

Take out all your cd,s and unplug any zip drives, card readers, etc.

Have you tried going away for 10 minutes ?
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:16, archived)
# first - if you have a cd-writer
start backing-up your stuff. It sounds like something is seriously unhappy, possibly hardware (do you get a DOS message saying keyboard failure?).

Have you tried a different keyboard in the machine?

The renaming crash might be unconnected, and sounds like a screwed windows registry or something (hence back-up and maybe reinstall operating system).

Get a second opinion though!
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:17, archived)
# thanks
tried other keyboard, no good.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:34, archived)
# try..
checking the keyboard in the mouse socket, if the keyboard works you've shafted the socket, has happened to me before :(

Edit: How did you write that message? :p
(vt8879, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:17, archived)
# we had one this week
at work. I thought Dell were talking pish when they said try the Kb in the mouse port - the guy didn't know why he was suggesting it either. We told him that we'd tried a working Kb in the port and also the seemingly bust Kb in another machine and it worked. It was the port, as I had originally suggested.

Cock-knocker!
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:24, archived)
# yesh...
tis a bastard to sort out aswell, its either an expert soldering job or its a new mb :/
(vt8879, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:26, archived)
# tried swapping ports
nothing worked, just back from rebooting
using a milosoft virtual keyboard
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:32, archived)
# Get away from Win ME as fast as you can.
Secondly, back up you data ASAP as was said above.

Which Anti virus software are you using?
(I helped save b3ta! itwontbeeasy, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:21, archived)
# norton
it looks like the port maybe
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:32, archived)
# Might sound mad....
....but have you got adobe acrobat running? That caused me a headache this week when i tried to link into it via Pegasus' mini-browser. We have win me here too. on a network. go figure.
(futtbucker, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:23, archived)
# not
acrobat quicktime 5 eeps shoving it's nose in at startup sometimes though
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 17:36, archived)