I had this happen once on a keyboard which was using a adaptor that caused
the keyboard to keep falling out of it's socket. Eventually the keyboard
emulator chip was damaged with consequences exactly as you described. The
only solution was to send it back to the manufacturer for repair.

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>I have a friend who had a computer which was in a midtower and he transfered
>everything to a minitower but the minitower was bad and now everything is back
>in the midtower.  When he tries to boot now he gets an error that says the
>keyboard is not present.  It was working before and he has tried another
>keyboard and still the same problem.  I present you with this in hope of a
>solution.  Is there any hope??
>
>Isaac Martinez

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