Keyboard stops working in XP

The PS2 keyboard in my computer has stopped working! After booting in XP,
keyboard does not respond and the device manager shows keyboard device with a
yellow bang sign. When I check the properties of this device, it says that
device is not working properly because the registry is either damaged or
corrupted. I tried uninstalling the device from device manager and
reinstalling it from a reboot. But it did not work. I then uninstalled the
keyboard from device manager, unplugged the keyboard and rebooted in XP. But
the device manager showed a keyboard with a yellow bang sign when there was
no keyboard physically connected!

Help me please.

Check that the keyboard drivers are installed correctly -
ControlPanel/Keyboard... see if the driver (Standard Microsoft Keyboard...
is present). While in ControlPanel, make sure that the Language and Regional
settings are set to English or whatever version XP you have.

Another thing to try is to delete the KBoard driver in Hidden device (in
Hardware manager/ Show hidden devices) since XP keeps a copy of any driver
it needs to boot. Might be a corrupted one so it will reinstall from CD or
CAB.

Otherwise, try another keyboard that works and see what you get.

Michael


"shadow" wrote in message
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The PS2 keyboard in my computer has stopped working! After booting in XP,
keyboard does not respond and the device manager shows keyboard device
with a
yellow bang sign. When I check the properties of this device, it says that
device is not working properly because the registry is either damaged or
corrupted. I tried uninstalling the device from device manager and
reinstalling it from a reboot. But it did not work. I then uninstalled the
keyboard from device manager, unplugged the keyboard and rebooted in XP.
But
the device manager showed a keyboard with a yellow bang sign when there
was
no keyboard physically connected!

Help me please.