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More info?)
Just a thought - are the keyboard and mouse plugged in the correct sockets?
Daft I know, but if you try booting with them transposed the mouse sometimes
works anyway, but the keyboard does not (at least, thats what happened when
I connected them incorrectly in a rush)
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> Mac Cool wrote:
> > I bought a computer from a neighbor and the ps/2 ports are not working.
I
> > looked in the bios and XP hardware manager to see if anything was
> > disabled, but everything seems fine. I looked at the ports and
motherboard
> > and didn't see any obvious damage, although the pins on the keyboard
plug
> > were bent. Anything else I should check before writing it off as
> > irreparable?
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> When you say PS/2 ports, I assume that both the keyboard and mouse are
> not working? This will not help you if that is your problem, but I
> thought I would relay to you a problem I recently encountered with the
> PS/2 mouse port:
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> It seems that every time I booted with the printer powered up (a
> Lexmark model) the mouse driver would not load when it started Windows.
> Turn off the printer and everything was fine, the mouse loaded. Once
> the mouse driver was loaded, you could turn on the printer and
> everything continued to work fine. The operator was turning on the
> power for the computer and printer via a power strip and the printer
> powered up when the power strip was turned on. Apparently the printer
> needed to be plugged into A/C in order to retain its previous state with
> regard to power.
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> I just thought I would mention this in case you were having trouble
> only with the mouse port.
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