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 > > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com