I recently discovered an old desktop pc I built 20 ish years ago, it has sat under a desk in my house the last 14 years and was switched on about 8 years ago last time and worked ok.
I decided seeing as its 20 years old and running xp it might make a good old school gaming machine but I have run into an issue. When I switch it on it gets into the bio and is asking me to save settings but when I press keys on my keyboard nothing happens. I have tried multiple ps2 keyboard and the issue is the same.
I also pulled the machine down and cleaned it out as there was a lot of dust in there and put it all back together, I also replaced the onboard battery as the old one was very dead hence it going into bios.
-it has an Asus av7333 motherboard in it and I have never had an issue with it before now, I have also removed all unecessary hardware so its trying to boot with the minimum stuff attached (1 memory module, 1 hd, graphics card) I had 3 memory modules and have tried all three individually to see if that made a difference when booting but again its the same issue.
When I power up and it gets to the bios screen, I know the keyboard is getting power as hitting num lock ect brings up the light on the keyboard so power is getting to the keyboard.
I really am not sure what the issue could be, I even tried the user manual way of resetting the bios just in case that would make a difference... it did not
I decided seeing as its 20 years old and running xp it might make a good old school gaming machine but I have run into an issue. When I switch it on it gets into the bio and is asking me to save settings but when I press keys on my keyboard nothing happens. I have tried multiple ps2 keyboard and the issue is the same.
I also pulled the machine down and cleaned it out as there was a lot of dust in there and put it all back together, I also replaced the onboard battery as the old one was very dead hence it going into bios.
-it has an Asus av7333 motherboard in it and I have never had an issue with it before now, I have also removed all unecessary hardware so its trying to boot with the minimum stuff attached (1 memory module, 1 hd, graphics card) I had 3 memory modules and have tried all three individually to see if that made a difference when booting but again its the same issue.
When I power up and it gets to the bios screen, I know the keyboard is getting power as hitting num lock ect brings up the light on the keyboard so power is getting to the keyboard.
I really am not sure what the issue could be, I even tried the user manual way of resetting the bios just in case that would make a difference... it did not
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