Hmmmmmm hardware.....none of the laptops keys work even when rebboted ..ive have win2000 in another partition and the keys don't work when it loads...sooo it has to be hardware ....right?

also when i refresh this web page, it loads funny,i have to do it 2-3 times to get it to refresh properly . and that hasnt happened before tonight..

 

Well, the BIOS loads before windows does. The BIOS is the first part to load, it's the mediator between hardware and software (there's TONS of information about it online). If you can get into the BIOS, then they keyboard does in fact work, and all you need is a healthy format of the drive. If you can't get into BIOS at all, then the keyboard doesn't work.

What you may want to do is take it into a CompUSA or local computer shop in the morning, walk up to the clerk looking like a jerk and say <cocky>I'll give you $5 if you can get into the BIOS.</cocky> (That's pronounced BY-Ohs, by the way) Then when they do it, get them to tell you how. It may cost $5, but considering how much most places charge for that kind of rubbish, that's not such a bad deal. Heck, you could even *bet* him $5... that way, if your keyboard doesn't work, at least you have $5 more than you used to...

 

Heck, you could even *bet* him $5... that way, if your keyboard doesn't work, at least you have $5 more than you used to...

thanks

i needed that....after all this ....my day has been full of monday gremils..
it started out with the t-birds trans acting up..drive and reverse traded places literally...on the way to the paint shop....instead it went to the transmission shop after 2hrs of phone calls to find someone who knows how to work on crusamatic trans..good news is its in the valve body and it should only cost a $100+ instead of a grand + oh well such is life....but thanks again for the chuckle.... and the help..

 

It sounds like pretty much everything is covered here... I'll second what people are saying about getting into the BIOS. Anyway, I think replacement keyboards run between $80 and $100 but I'd try unplugging the ribbon cable and plugging it back in to see if that brings it back to life before replacing anything.

 

just a update: i still don't have use of the key board. this mornin i got back online and checked the virus updates again...then went to FTE ..when my mcaffe firewall pops asking me if im sure that i wanted to turn it off..huh ??
so i turned it on.....then a couple of seconds later it asks the same thing..so enuff is enuff iwent and bought a new copy of nortan's internet security...i hope it works better than the last one did.....just wanted to update you all...and thanks for all your help last night...i'm going to have the keyboard check this weekend......i'm still open to any idea's..

 

Maybe you can try here!
http://www.techguy.org/

 

Odd to say the least !
Dunno , id backup the HD and reformat before id bring it for a check.

The hacker thing i don't buy , don't make sense , usually a hacker , if he /she got root would install a key logger so as to "catch" all your key commands , and that would be little use if you keyboard was not workin...

Me i think the viruses that you have/had may have screwed with your computer .......


To back up your HD on your laptop , you need a CD burner on the laptop, or a million floppies !!!

Or you could network it with you other computer, makin sure your other computer is AV protected and fully up to date ... or you can get a cable that will allow you to take out your laptop HD and slave it to the master HD of your other computer .. if you can do that then you can scan it from there for a virus ..

If you have a virus then it will try to disable to AV software , so putting it as a slave and doin the scan there can sort that out ....

Or a USB drive , you can get them pretty cheap now they hold quite a lot so you could load your files and dump them on the other computer a bit at a time ..

Then reformat and reload the OS again , me bet's the keyboard will work !!!

Hey i could be wrong i usually am !!!! :-)

Good luck dude !!

 

Kinda sounds like what happend to my other drive with win2k on it. At first after running ad-aware it worked beautifully booted fast and everything else like it was a fresh install.

A few reboots later, i wasn't getting anything as far as connecting to the net itself, and my software firewall was OFF, and wouldn't restart.

Im on a cable connection and when i boot linux it doesn't do that, so its obviously a windows issue.

Now just to get the drive to come back up. (It tanked apparently.) And reinstall windows.

I don't really miss it much, but there are a few apps that linux just can't hack right now.

 

After you get your system up an running again, goto radioshack or order this online...www.alphashield.com. Nothing gets thru it unless you invite it in. Period.


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