On Tue September 6 2005 3:50 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:43 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone.
Sending this distress call for my wife.
We have just rebuilt her pooter. Trying to do an install (SuSE 9.3) on a virgin 250 GB IDE hard drive.
check the bios of the mb to see if it sees or will allow you to use the kb. if not then its hardware not software problem. In that case try to wiggle the kb connector it might be loose. if that fails you might have a bad mb.
Carl, thanks for the reply. What do I check in the BIOS? I looked. All I see is: USB keyboard support: enabled USB mouse support: enabled Some additional information: We just tried loading Knoppix. Had similar problems. Sometimes it loads Knoppix and other times it stops before the desktop loads. When it does load Knoppix it recognizes the keyboard! That's great. However, in doing so it sometimes then does not recognize the mouse. Hit or miss. It does not seem to be an intermittent problem with the keyboard port. In all cases (Knoppix or SuSE) the keyboard works initially, but then with SuSE at least it stops working once you initiate the install. In addition, as previously reported, sometimes the pooter does POST and just as often it does not. Further, this is the 2nd Gigabyte board that is having these problems. Doing the same thing as the board we sent back. It does not matter if we use 1 or 2 sticks of 512 MB memory (DDR266 PC2100), and it does not matter if when using 2 sticks they are side by side or separated by an empty slot. So, problems no matter if it's SuSE or Knoppix (different problems, but problems none-the-less). What next, coach? ;o) Thx. Gil