Yup, trying that with a PS/2-USB converter in a moment.

The problem is, it's impossible to buy a keyboard now. All keyboards either have funky key layouts, that "ergonomy" BS, or at the very least, extra buttons for power on/off/sleep/whatever. I want my old-style, 1997 keyboards! Which also is what I'm working on, but these are harder and harder to get...

Ok i guess i got to find something to get tubes to call and finish the call for mehttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif What do I have to do?http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif I already know but lets see if it works http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

FYhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/heart.gif http://www.usbwholesale.com/ps2%20usb%20converter.htm

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
My main concern is that the thing is only 3 months old what are the chances of this happening again considering i still owe like 1300.00 us dollars on the thing. They told me laptops over heat alot and that if you use it alot this could cause this need to reflash the bios. Is that true? No, that doesn't make sense to me at all.

The BIOS may control things like dynamic clocking to make the chip run cooler, or adjust voltages, but I don't think it has any truth to it.

In all honesty, HP Laptops have a bad reputation for quality.

Go back to the basics,

Take the UPS out of the circuit.
Pull the network cable.
Etc. until it will run again.

Computer help please!
 

Are you sure the keyboard works? All keys work under Linux?

It probably does but I just thought I'd check... sometimes they "partially" fail.

Boot into safemode and disable UPS.exe, see if that changes anything.

Get a slim key keyboard, such as those in notebooks. I like them very much.

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
Thats a good idea If i can get passed the peson on the phone that has the thickest accent from india. You probably talked to somebody in India. Many large computer companies outsourced call centres out to India. Last I heard Dell moved the one for corporate customers back to the US, though I am not sure about others.

reformat, reinstall.

yes that's pretty much my answer to everything. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

yeah play nice, when you get it back working, then you can call them and call them incompetant *******s.

nope. I did throw the phone to her though.

http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif ACK!

Originally posted by Asher

The BF's the same way, so I got him a standard beige IBM keyboard. The design's been unchanged for I don't know how long, and it's designed to withstand at least a million keystrokes. Exactly, only to get what I want, I had to go and see where no longer needed keyboards are.

Dead battery. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

It's the same thing with desktops - if the clock keeps resetting, it's the battery. When you turn off your computer, the internal clock is maintained by the internal battery, not from the wall socket.

Originally posted by Asher

No, that doesn't make sense to me at all.

The BIOS may control things like dynamic clocking to make the chip run cooler, or adjust voltages, but I don't think it has any truth to it.

In all honesty, HP Laptops have a bad reputation for quality. Im starting to see that my self. Thanks for your help. I guess Ill just have to keep paying for warrnties till i get the darn thing paid for. Thanks again.

Yes, if the UPS service is crashing with a memory error, it's screwing with your system's memory...which can make things act unexpectedly and undesirably.

Yes.

The BIOS is the Basic Input/Output System. It's very low-level code specific to your machine, and basically sets up and configures the hardware for the Operating System, including the power system.

Flashing the BIOS means loading new code to it, usually updated code. It sounds like there was a bug in the BIOS, and upgrading the version fixed that bug.

Solver, have you tried changing the connection of the keyboard PS/2USB?

dead battery http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif