Never did like USB keyboards for this (and other) reason(s).
Fight with the PS2 one. Check BIOS settings. It should work,
or try a different one.  (They go bad.)
                                 Rick Glazier

From: "raymond rynehart"
helping a mate with a keyboard fault.  USB or PS2 keyboard, works in BIOS, but when windows xp starts, we lose it, we can recover by 
disable and then re-enable keyboard in Hard Ware properties.. the thing is he has his kids with there own accounts, and he has to 
allow them full control, 'admin' so they can re-enable keyboard, but he wants to remove the admin from there accounts, so thinking 
is was a software fault we reinstaled windows...
now we are stuck, as we still dont have the keyboard, keyboard did work for in putting the CD Key, but we cant get past the final 
log in, so we cant finish the install... please help. 

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