Strange keyboard problem.

Rev

I swapped my motherboard last week and reinstalled windows, everything was fine till I had to restart then when windows restarted it wouldn't detect my keyboard.

It's a USB keyboard and I use a USB-PS/2 converter so I'm not using a USB port.

At first I thought the keyboard had broken so I tried it in a USB post and it worked fine, so I thought the adaptor had gone so I tried it with two different ones and it still doesn't register. Although when the PC starts up and it checking the hard ware, if I have the keyboard plugged into the USB port it says I have two keyboards attached, when its not plugged in at all it says I have one attached.

Anyone have any idea what it would be? It's not a huge problem but it's annoying me as to why it's just stopped registering it.

Could it be something I've installed?

Thanks

intel

Check the BIOS for USB Keyboard enabled.

Rev

its working fine when I plug it inti a USB port, its when I use the USB-PS/2 converter and plug it into the PS/2 socket that it wont register it. Although it did at first, just randomly stopped.

intel

Yeah I know what you mean my external keyboard on my lappy does the same
I think it maybe down to what gets recieved at startup as a keyboard is the
main ingredient and a mouse can be PS2 over USB (just for the mouse)

Mmmm Id like to find an answer also as its a queer one. :think:

Rev

Ok so this is very strange. I swapped my keyboard to the mouse port and put the mouse port in the keyboard one and the keybord works now, so does the mouse. Even though the mouse has been working perfectly fine in the other port.

I'm officially confused, but its working so I wont complin.

intel

Yeah I said it was a wierd one...

closecut

Another thing you could've tried is uninstalling the keyboard from windows, and the restarting windows to see if it would install correctly.

But the port-swapping seemed to work, so hey, why fix what isn't broken?