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cmos help pls

Sep 6, 2004 10:56AM PDT

good day sir,
pls can some one help me with this problem. my keyboard socket got bad so i remove it from
the mother board and got a usb pci slot. it did not work in dos till it let reach the windows
enviroment. i heard some little problem i touch the cmos setting and now it require me to press f1 to continue or f2 to enter
cmos setting and my keyboard dos not work at dos. can any one tell me how to get this probs solve?

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Re: cmos help pls
Sep 6, 2004 11:01AM PDT

A cheap fix may be to replace the motherboard. They run from below 50 dollars to a bit more.

Bob

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Re: cmos help pls
Sep 6, 2004 11:15AM PDT

but i cant get those over here, is their any technical thing i can do?pls

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Re: cmos help pls
Sep 6, 2004 11:32AM PDT

I've been able to replace motherboards worldwide. Maybe a super technician can replace your PS2 port?

If not, you have a dead PC.

Bob