I was just looking at this porn site ....

[Greggers]

..... doing 'research' - as you do ....

Anyway - the upshot (no pun intended ) of it all now is that my PC's keyboard isn't responding even though my mouse is ....

It's a Fujitsu Scaleo - about 3 yrs old and so far I've not had any serious problems with it apart from a hard drive failure. It's set up with various passworded user accounts - which made it interesting because of course I couldn't use the kb to sign in ... All the peripherals are USB controlled, so no PS/2 socket for a piggyback keyboard.

Now, When I boot into safe mode the keyboard is ok, so I've been into my account and deleted the password control so I can actually get onto my own desktop at least. I've run AGV, SpyBot and MalWare which have thrown up various issues, but resolving them doesn't give me the KB back. Since then I've been into device manager, deleted the old KB and re-installed a new MS KB, but even though the hardware is recognised and the driver downloaded, device manager still identifies a problem with the KB.

Now as a last resort I've been able to save all my critical documents to the external drive (although oddly XP won't let be back up to this drive..?) so it's not the end of the world, but I'd rather not have to do a full restore unless I really need to ...

Any thoughts gratefully received!

G

ps - Does 'Timmy's Rule' apply to this section ?

 

[Fanum]

Are the keys all stuck together?

Obvious solutions first.......have you tried unplugging all the usb devices , rebooting and plugging them in different holes? (ooooer, fnaar fnaar)

sometimes it works

Also, In CP, uninstal all usb ports, then reboot and let the machine find them again.

 

[shugie]

If you can get access to another machine, I'd suggest making bootable disks for an anti-virus product like this http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/tools/rescue-cd/ then booting the machine with the CD and running a scan.

This will allow the antivirus programme to remove stuff it can't get at while the machine is running.

I'd also suggest trying an external USB keyboard, if you can borrow one, in case the problem is hardware based, but as the keyboard works in safe mode I don't think this is likely to be the problem. Always good to eliminate the easy options first though.