My keyboard will not work after I go into Safe Mode With Command Prompt. I
get the cmd window in safe mode but the keyboard will not work. I have to
manually restart. It's a Dell 8400 Dimension desktop. Windows XP Pro.

TIA

T wrote:
> My keyboard will not work after I go into Safe Mode With Command Prompt. I
> get the cmd window in safe mode but the keyboard will not work. I have to
> manually restart. It's a Dell 8400 Dimension desktop. Windows XP Pro.
>
> TIA
>
>
Are you using a Dell keyboard or a Microsoft Keyboard? If it is the
Microsoft they were known to have that problem. At least I had it. Also
I am not sure if a USB keyboard would work because the drivers aren't
loaded.

It is a Dell keyboard...the original that came with the computer.


"DrJoel" <joelw135@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>T wrote:
>> My keyboard will not work after I go into Safe Mode With Command Prompt.
>> I get the cmd window in safe mode but the keyboard will not work. I have
>> to manually restart. It's a Dell 8400 Dimension desktop. Windows XP
>> Pro.
>>
>> TIA
> Are you using a Dell keyboard or a Microsoft Keyboard? If it is the
> Microsoft they were known to have that problem. At least I had it. Also I
> am not sure if a USB keyboard would work because the drivers aren't
> loaded.

On 21/12/2005 DrJoel <joelw135@comcast.net> wrote:
>T wrote:
>> My keyboard will not work after I go into Safe Mode With Command Prompt. I
>> get the cmd window in safe mode but the keyboard will not work. I have to
>> manually restart. It's a Dell 8400 Dimension desktop. Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>Are you using a Dell keyboard or a Microsoft Keyboard? If it is the
>Microsoft they were known to have that problem. At least I had it. Also
>I am not sure if a USB keyboard would work because the drivers aren't
>loaded.

The problem that the O.P. has is usually because they are using a USB
keyboard and the complete USB drivers are only loaded in normal Windows XP
start ups. To get this type of keyboard to work in BIOSes, get a standard
PS/2 keyboard and access the BIOS. With the PS/2 keyboard, look for BIOS
setting "Use legacy USB" or "USB Keyboard" setting.

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Y.

Thanks for your response.

Regards,


"Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> On 21/12/2005 DrJoel <joelw135@comcast.net> wrote:
>>T wrote:
>>> My keyboard will not work after I go into Safe Mode With Command Prompt.
>>> I
>>> get the cmd window in safe mode but the keyboard will not work. I have
>>> to
>>> manually restart. It's a Dell 8400 Dimension desktop. Windows XP Pro.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>>Are you using a Dell keyboard or a Microsoft Keyboard? If it is the
>>Microsoft they were known to have that problem. At least I had it. Also
>>I am not sure if a USB keyboard would work because the drivers aren't
>>loaded.
>
> The problem that the O.P. has is usually because they are using a USB
> keyboard and the complete USB drivers are only loaded in normal Windows XP
> start ups. To get this type of keyboard to work in BIOSes, get a
> standard
> PS/2 keyboard and access the BIOS. With the PS/2 keyboard, look for BIOS
> setting "Use legacy USB" or "USB Keyboard" setting.
>
> --
> ---
>
> Y.
>