I made a computer using a used m/b (pentium 1 133mhz), and as far as I am aware, it's working fine.
I loaded win 98 onto the hard drive and have had no problems at all except that for some reason it will not detect the mouse. Now, for some reason, the keyboard isn't responding in windows anymore either.
Somebody suggested that the modem might be causing a conflict, and as I could no longer access windows even with the keyboard to remove the drivers, (I removed the modem physically), I thought it would be much easier to reformat and reload windows which is what I did.
The modem doesn't seem to have been causing the problem as I am now back to square one minus a modem.(That's ok though)
Windows recognises the serial card which the mouse is attached to, but not the mouse. I've tested the mouse, and it's fine, and I've also tried another one, but it still doesn't work.
The only things which are connected at present are the basic things, fdd, hdd,cdrom,monitor,keyboard, mouse. 
I've tried different serial cards, but still I'm having the same problem.(The card is fine in any other system)
I'm becoming more and more convinced that it's a BIOS problem, something I have or haven't enabled.
I've tried setting it all to defaults. I've tried disabling everything. I've tried enabling everything.
I've never come across this problem before, and it really is starting to drive me mad.
Now the keyboard isn't responding again, so I'm not able to get into the control panel again.
Any suggestions?

Michele Sayer

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