Dianne:

Have you looked in the bios to see if the bios has enabled the 
USB?  Sometimes they work only in the operating system and therefore people 
do not look to see if the bios is enabled.

Second point:  Do you know it is a working Keyboard?  Have you tried it on 
another system?

Sam Reiner


At 05:59 PM 1/31/2008, you wrote:

>Subject: A CONUNDRUM
>
>
>I have found the definition of a Catch 22.
>
>Am doing a clean XP PRO install on a Dell computer.
>The dos screen tells me there is a keyboard failure.  But the lights on the
>keyboard are on.  The computer boots from the disk, it goes through its blue
>screen uploading the basics, then it gives me the screen asking if I would
>like to continue installing XP, all I have to do is click ENTER.  But it
>doesn't recognize the keyboard.  There are only USB ports no PS/2 ports on
>the tower, I have tried all the possible USB ports.  So the only way I can
>see to fix the keyboard error is by hitting enter on the keyboard, but.....
>you see the problem? Help. Thanks to anyone who can.... Dianne
>
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