[rescue] Best brains: Dead keyboard ports on PC hardware

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Tue Jun 19 07:56:07 CDT 2007


In a fit of angst Phil Stracchino gargled the following:
> Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
>> Excluding the hardware failure? Can you disable serial
>> ports and see what happens?
>
> Not without getting into the BIOS.  See chicken and egg.  :)

Something else just occurred to me - try plugging in just the keyboard but
into the _mouse_ port.  Sometimes those are separate ports but have some
fallback.

Mike Hebel
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