Keyboard problams at boot

[John Williams]

This problem has plagued me for over a year but it seems to be getting
worse. I am running Windows XP Pro and have a problem with the
keyboard not working sometimes when Windows starts. When this happens
and I check the device manager, it shows a yellow exclamation point
next to the keyboard. Rebooting usually fixes the problem but I
sometimes have to reboot more than once to get it to work.

Before you assume it's the keyboard, I have tried multiple keyboards
and the problem even continued after I built a new system with a new
motherboard and processor. I can safely rule out the keyboard and
port at that point. I wiped the hard drive a while ago and did a
fresh install of Windows XP and the problem followed me past that.

I am using a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse (MS Intellimouse). Also
plugged into the back are a printer (into the parallel port) and a MS
Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (into the game port on the sound card).
I feel that it has to be a hardware conflict of some kind but have no
idea of where to start.

The processor is an Athlon XP 2000.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[John Williams]

And that would be a keyboard problem, not a problam. Can't blame that
on the keyboard, unfortunately. Just sloppy proof reading.

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:45:15 -0400, John Williams >
wrote:

>This problem has plagued me for over a year but it seems to be getting
>worse. I am running Windows XP Pro and have a problem with the
>keyboard not working sometimes when Windows starts. When this happens
>and I check the device manager, it shows a yellow exclamation point
>next to the keyboard. Rebooting usually fixes the problem but I
>sometimes have to reboot more than once to get it to work.
>
>Before you assume it's the keyboard, I have tried multiple keyboards
>and the problem even continued after I built a new system with a new
>motherboard and processor. I can safely rule out the keyboard and
>port at that point. I wiped the hard drive a while ago and did a
>fresh install of Windows XP and the problem followed me past that.
>
>I am using a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse (MS Intellimouse). Also
>plugged into the back are a printer (into the parallel port) and a MS
>Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (into the game port on the sound card).
>I feel that it has to be a hardware conflict of some kind but have no
>idea of where to start.
>
>The processor is an Athlon XP 2000.
>
>Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.