Hello!  It is very improbable unless the floppy was infected.  Is the
heyboard doing strange things in DOS too when you boot from the downloaded
floppy?  If so, the keyboard controller is bad.  It also could be a
corruption in the BIOS program on the motherboard (I have seen this once
before), if you have the manual handy, it should document the exact jumpers
to connect or disconnect to reset it to defaults, OR you can  remove the
battery for a minute or so and it should reset itself.  Then you can see if
this fixed the problem, if not, the only solution would be to shop for a new
motherboad. Something else though...  do you have a PS2 connection and are
using a large connector (PS1) type keyboard with an adapter?  You could test
the adapter on another computer, I have seen some of these adapters get
loose inside.  I live in Fortaleza and our comunity has been advertised as
second only to the Dead Sea as to the corrosive effects of the salt in our
air, so I see all sorts of hardware problems I never saw in the States!  I
hope this helps.
Howard Rubin, Fortaleza, Brazil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Blenkhorn" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; "Howard Rubin" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "Gary Blenkhorn" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Keyboard I/O Problems


> Howard
>
> I appreciate the info very much.  But the keyboard problem only started
after the spill on the keyboard.  The viruses were there prior to ththe
spill and I have tried a different keyboard.
>
> I have done a low level format and booted my PC from a bootdisk I
downloaded from PCtech and used fdisk to create the partition and then
formatted with format.com.  Do you think I could still have a virus after
that.
>
> Gary
>
>

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