More bullheaded in hindsight but it worked out. As I don't have a USB
keyboard or a driver based one I thought only of the PCI video card as
all my pc's are older and have no onboard devices save for legacy USB ports.
Since I do employ many PCI devices the BIOS is doing a lot of steering
for all these IRQ's and the PCI bus is getting bottle necked handling
all these items. I need to upgrade to PCI express to continue to do this.
Peter Kaulback
Hugh Vandervoort wrote:
A truly heroic effort, Peter.
I'd have removed a PCI device or tried a USB keyboard first.
The Keyboard uses IRQ 1, and I don't know that any other device would
try to use it. I wonder if there isn't another hardware problem of some
kind? How are your resources allocated in the BIOS?
Peter Kaulback wrote:
With one of
my computers I had to reinstall windows and the install went
smoothly enough until the key had to be typed in and
the keyboard would not respond, tried a different keyboard and same
result. Tried installing win98 and Ubuntu and same result each time.
Now this computer had 6 PCI slots filled, it's an Abit KT-7A with 1
AGP, 6 PCI, and 1 ISA with no onboard devices. So I swapped out the
PCI Geforce 420 and put in an older ATI Radeon 7000 AGP. Problem solved.
Now the items on the PCI bus are a USB 2 card, a USR analog modem, a
Audigy sound card, a D-Link network card, and a Promise SATA card. I
wonder why the system locked out the keyboard for an install yet when
I had all the PCI slots filled for an existing installation it worked
fine.
Any ideas?
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