Hello,
I have an Abit-BH6 with Windows 98 installed. When I turn on the computer, thw keyboard is fine. But if I get into Windowa and play Doom or Half Life, the keyboard and mouse stop working, but the game carries on, not accepting input. If any of you know what problem I have, it would be nice to know.
Try a different PS/2 keyboard to see if it still happens. If it does, then it might be a conflicting driver or BIOS setting.
Something I've noticed:
It didn't lock up in Safe Mode. It usually locks up when I'm playing a game or after playing a game. ANd it does this to all of the PS/2 keyboards I have (4).
P.s. Sorry for the bad spelling. Im posting this on a very small keyboard.
Must be a conflicting driver. Can you post the lines in your config.sys and autoexec.bat? Also a screenshot of your device manager should help.
wrote:Something I've noticed:
It didn't lock up in Safe Mode.
Perhaps you have some special program running at Windows startup that specifically tries to take control of the keyboard when playing a game? If there's nothing in your start menu's Startup folder, use Start->Run->msconfig to check what else might be getting loaded.
Sorry if I didn't respond immediately, but after tests, the keyboard and mouse also lock up in safe mode, and when i press the reset button on my case(a small red button that deletes everything from ram and returns to bios) the keyboard is still locked up. An unplug and re-plug fix it temporarily, but something i've noticed is that it takes longer to lock up when typing a document than when playing a game. Im thinking of a BIOS change or update, maybe to clear out something in the system, and if that doesn't work, then it's the usb/ps2 to pci adapter's job(i currently dont have one).
This belongs in Marvin.
Sorry if I appear like a novice, but who is Marvin? As you see, I' a newbie.
wrote:I have an Abit-BH6 with Windows 98 installed. When I turn on the computer, thw keyboard is fine. But if I get into Windowa and play Doom or Half Life, the keyboard and mouse stop working, but the game carries on, not accepting input. If any of you know what problem I have, it would be nice to know.
When this happens, does moving the mouse still work? In other words, if you're in a game like Doom or Half-Life, does moving the mouse still move the view?
I had that problem on my Windows 98SE system, but only with the game Red Faction. The keyboard and mouse worked great in everything else, but when I loaded up Red Faction, after about 2 minutes or so, the keyboard stopped working and so did the mouse buttons. I could still move the view with the mouse, but I couldn't do anything else.
I never did find out what caused it.
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