HELP WITH P3V4X??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[vagvpwebmasta]

I just bought an asus p3v4x. I think it runs beautifully. But, I still unable to run the system. I think the ps/2 ports are messed up, because the keyboard will boot up, but I get no response from the system. I can't start the system because I can't get past BIOS because the keyboard won't work. My keyboard is fine. I tried on a different system. What could be wrong. It's brand new in the retail box. I can send it back, but i don't want to go through the hassle. Any suggestions?

 

[WizardCalledJosh]

I don't want youto should stupid on this, and I'm sure you know this but I'm just cover the bases. IF you plug in the keyboard to the mouse outlet you will have problems. Make sure its the proper port. DOes it show the bios screen, meaning it shows the CPU speed and the amount of ram but you can't press delete cause of the keyboard? If you got it somehwere intown I'll take it back and get another, if you ordered it online from somewhere it will take a while to get it replaced so I'd double check everything just so you don't have to waite 2-3 weeks cause you make a small and easly fixable mistake...

 

[J-dogg]

vagvpwebmasta (Mar 13, 2001 04:14 p.m.):
I just bought an asus p3v4x. I think it runs beautifully. But, I still unable to run the system. I think the ps/2 ports are messed up, because the keyboard will boot up, but I get no response from the system. I can't start the system because I can't get past BIOS because the keyboard won't work. My keyboard is fine. I tried on a different system. What could be wrong. It's brand new in the retail box. I can send it back, but i don't want to go through the hassle. Any suggestions?

This is strange because I recently purchased the same mobo and have been running into the same problem lately. It is an intermittent problem. Sometimes, it will not even be acknowledged on boot. Other times, it will boot normally, then will act as if the shift key is being held down. E.g., "$" sign instead of "4". Then at other times, it works just fine.

This was with a fairly new(3-4 months old) Microsoft Internet Pro keyboard. I tried using an older generic keyboard to troubleshoot this problem and have booted 5-6 times during the past 24 hours with no problems.

Could this just be an issue of a defective keyboard, or possibly some other problem such as a port issue as brought up by vagvpwebmasta?

 

[h2k]

try loosening the screw on the mobo near the keyboard port and the battery

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I've seen this a few times.......the ports are overly sensitive.

Try holding in the keyboard plug very securly and booting. Really push it in there and try. If this works....you may have to do a bit of cleaning of that PS/2 if you don't want to RMA it.