Please Help!!, Keyboard Errors

[KennyH]

I have an old Socket 7 First-Gen Pentium motherboard that has given me fits since the first day I bought it used. I put off fixing it for a while but it is now time to cure the problem. My problem is that when I first got the board it worked great, no problems. I had it running for about thirty minutes and all of a sudden, it began beeping at me like the ram had come lose. I immediately shut it down and checked everything. I booted the thing back up and it said KEYBOARD ERROR OR NO KEYBOARD PRESENT. This error came as a surprise because the keyboard was hooked up at this time. I made sure it was hooked up again and again to no avail. A while back I was trying to diag the problem and some guys said that they thought that the keyboard bios had went bad. Is this the problem. Does this sound right? It makes since to me, but I am not sure. I figured if anyone knew how to fix it they would be in this forum. If anyone has heard of this before or knows a fix please post any thoughts or ideas or PM me. Thanks guys and girls for helping.

 

[Andrew99]

When a computer starts beeping at you like an uzi firing rounds.. sorry, simile crazy... Then that tends to show that the computer is receiving too much input from the keyboard.. If the computer boots up and says "keyboard error or not present" ... That tends to mean the computer could not find a "clean state" keyboard... which can also be caused by a key being pressed while the system is trying to init the keyboard..

My optimistic guess is that you have a key stuck on the keyboard... It might not be in the down position, but the wires underneath may be shorting out, in essence holding a key down.. This would cause constant beeping, and would prevent the system from initializing the keyboard on bootup as well... I'd try a different keyboard before I tried a different motherboard..

Did the mad beeping episode happen when you were trying to boot, or while you had your OS up and running?

 

[KennyH]

While the OS was running. I tried another AT keyboard and it still says the same thing.

 

[KennyH]

Can anyone else help me?