My earlier post dt.feb 15,2006, at 8.27 PM (clipped) <<<<i have checked the connection very throughly and see nothing wrong >>> well... SO MUCH FOR MY "very throughly". I gave the keyboard connector adapter a gentle "rotational twist" and am back in business. thanks and hope this helps someone sometime----Venkat Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml