Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!uunet!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!donnel From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Keyboard problem? Message-ID: <1619@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: 24 Jun 91 20:06:44 GMT References: Sender: news@nih-csl.nih.gov Distribution: comp Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Lines: 29 In article perf@efd.lth.se (Per Foreby) writes: ->Facts: 286, 1Mb, Dos 5.0, Win 3.0, himem, smartdrv. -> ->Problem: I can run windows for about one minute - then the following ->happens. The bell starts beeping just as if the keyboard buffer should ->be full and the keyboard doesn't work. The computer is still running, ->but very very slow (as if it had to take care of lots of keyboard ->interrupts). Ctrl+alt+del does of course not work, and hitting the ->reset button reboots the machine, but the keyboard keeps beeping. ->Power off is the only thing that helps. -> ->It looks like a hardware problem, but I don't have any keyboard ->problems when I'm outside windows. I'm confused... -> -> -> ->-- ->Per Foreby (perf@efd.lth.se) Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden I had this same problem when I upgraded my mother from a True-Blue IBM AT motherboard to a new 12 Mhz with AMI bios. It turned out that the new AMI bios would not work with the IBM AT keyboard (with the function keys on the right.) It would also not work with a generic AT keyboard. The only way that I got the system to work was to buy a new enhanced keyboard. (Of coarse I changed the keyboard setting in the windows setup.) It appears that the AMI keyboard bios is not 100% IBM compatible. Best regards, Don Lehn