Need Help With This Unstable PC

[Doctor Varney]

When I switch my PC on, it sometimes says: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present. Press F1 to continue or delete to enter set-up".

There's nothing wrong with the keyboard. It is, however, on USB. I don't have a PS2 one anymore.

This kept happening before I swapped out my old HDD which had somehow failed. I put the new drive in and it's been fine for a few days... now the keyboard issue has started up again.

It's a totally stupid message. How can I press anything if I have no keyboard present?

Who the hell designs these things? Do they program this shit as a sick joke???

I can't pinpoint what it is. Only successive booting and rebooting can get it to work - then it won't do it for ages - then suddenly the problem comes back. I have to keep reseting the system, over and over (about 6-12 times in quick succession) to get it going again. This machine is like... one hair away from recieving a size nine boot sequence from me... straight down the ****ing stairs!!!

I don't have any clue as to what's causing this. Anyone have any ideas? It's driving me mad. And everything else about it. Thanks.

Dr. V

 

[lucasbytegenius]

Check in your BIOS for a setting that says "Halt on Keyboard Errors" or something similar. Change it to No.

 

[johnb35]

Let me ask you this.... Are all these problems you are having happening on the same pc? If so, then I would suggest to restall windows and it that don't solve it then get a new pc.

Borrow a ps/2 type keyboard and enable legacy usb in the bios and see if that works. I can't help but think if all these problems are on one system, then there is something drastically wrong.