Keyboard failure. Press F1 to continue... >:(

[elsiegee40]

FFS! It's bad enough having to deal with these carp messages at work... but on my own desktop.

 

I know XP is on its way out and so is this PC soon, but that message is truly NOT HELPFUL [/rant over]

 

.... and breathe!

 

I tried the keyboard on another machine and it was fine... and my desktop is now running again... like I said the machine is on its way out

[Chris_Jones]

You normally get that error at boot, if the keyboard isnt connected correctly or if a key is held down for too long (the machine thinks its stuck, hence a fault)

[witch]

You normally get that error at boot, if the keyboard isnt connected correctly or if a key is held down for too long (the machine thinks its stuck, hence a fault)

 

Um, I think she might actually have been fuming at the ridiculous message !

[elsiegee40]

Not sure what caused this. Nothing useful in the Event Log.

 

I was just using the PC and it hung. Tried a hard reboot and got the keyboard error... several times in a row. The PC and it's cabling haven't been touched in ages (I sound like a user, don't I? )

 

Anyway since the major pull out and vac round everything's fine now...

[elsiegee40]

Um, I think she might actually have been fuming at the ridiculous message !

I was fuming at the stupid message! Completely!

[PICNIC]

No teachers planner left leaning on the ctrl key? sorry, had to ask

[elsiegee40]

My PC on my desk at home.... it wasn't the actual fault that that was my issue...

 

It was the bl**dy stupid message telling me to press F1 having just told me the keyboard had failed...

[tech_guy]

I had a frustrating one last week. The HDD in a laptop fell over. I recovered all the data (55GB that wasn't backed up anywhere else), bar the Word file the user had open at the time of failure but I was subsequently able to extract and save most of the contents of the corrupted file later on.

 

I purchased a new HDD and slid Windows and everything else back on. I checked the laptop and everything was running okay. Easy job I thought.

 

The user then asked for some additional software, so there I was installing Dropbox and Logmein. After I'd finished I then realised the laptop was now VERY hot and I discovered that the fan had now decided to die during that session

 

As the laptop is four years old the user is now getting a new machine as we can't take a risk with it and I'll use it for mucking about with (I purchased a refurbished fan from eBay for £3). I just wish everything had fallen over at the same time as it would have saved me two days

 

I really do hate computers sometimes.

[SteveBentley]

Doesn't that message come from BIOS rather than Windows?

[elsiegee40]

Doesn't that message come from BIOS rather than Windows?

Yep...still a bl**dy stupid message!

[X-13]

Yep...still a bl**dy stupid message!

 

Which you can disable.

 

Open the BIOS and disable "halt on keyboard error" [it's something along those lines.]

 

 

Also, I think the error is like that so you can go get a keyboard, attach it and then press F1 to carry on.

 

 

It's still a stupid message though.