My hardrive messing up my keyboard???

computernerd · Post by **computernerd** » August 17th, 2005, 3:42 am

Ok, i have a amd 900mhz comupter, im tryin to hook it up for my mom but i have encountered a problem. I have it as my hard drive as primary master, and cd rom as primary slave, on ide1. When i go to install windows on the hard drive, or when i try to get into my bios when the hard drive is connected, it wont let me use the keyboard, none of the buttons seem to work, but when i unconnect the hard drive, the keyboard works and i can hit delete and get into my bios ect. Lol so when it says hit any key boot up from cd i can do it but it doesnt detect a hard drive because there isnt once connected, so i cant add windows to any hard drive. The problem is that when it says hit any key to boot up from cd, i cant hit it bc the keyboard wont work then when hard drive is connected. Ive tried 4 different hard drives, and ive also tried 2 different 40 pin ribbon cables, i and different configurations of the hard drive and the cd rom drive, but nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any ideas?

computernerd · Post by **computernerd** » August 18th, 2005, 2:55 am

anybody got any ideas?

Post by **ccb056** » August 18th, 2005, 3:24 am

sounds like the motherboard is bad

computernerd · Post by **computernerd** » August 19th, 2005, 3:26 am

ehh, thats what i figured lol

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 20th, 2005, 12:35 am

If you have another hard drive try that, you might check the BIOS too, connect only the hard drive and see what happens, try a new ribbon cable to the hard drive if you have one