Computer will not boot up from diskette or CD-ROM

[Guest]

My computer running Win 2000 Pro. does not recognize the keyboard or the
mouse. I tried to boot from a DOS diskette or a Norton Utilites CD-ROM but it
goes to Windows and ask for ctrl-alt-del. I cannot inturrupt the boot setup
either.

Suggestions?

 

[Galen]

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My computer running Win 2000 Pro. does not recognize the keyboard or
the mouse. I tried to boot from a DOS diskette or a Norton Utilites
CD-ROM but it goes to Windows and ask for ctrl-alt-del. I cannot
inturrupt the boot setup either.

Suggestions?

Check in your BIOS setup and set it to boot first to floppy, then to CD,
then to HDD.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Jud]

In sgtjdc <[email protected]> had this to say:

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Have you got them plugged in the right holes, have you tested they work in
another machine.

Do they work before Windows Starts, or do they not work from boot up, if so
then you may have a faulty Motherboard.

Jud

 

[Guest]

How can I interrupt the BIOS set up when in order to do so I have to hit the
Delete key and the keyboard is not responding?

The keyboard and mouse work in another computer.

 

[Bob I]

Use different keyboard, with PS/2 type connector.

How can I interrupt the BIOS set up when in order to do so I have to hit the
Delete key and the keyboard is not responding?

The keyboard and mouse work in another computer.

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[Galen]

In sgtjdc <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

How can I interrupt the BIOS set up when in order to do so I have to
hit the Delete key and the keyboard is not responding?

The keyboard and mouse work in another computer.

As Bob has suggested use a non-USB keyboard also, is it the DEL key that
needs pressing? I've seen them with everything from F1 to CRTL + ESC and
just ESC before. They can be pretty tricky like that and unfortunately
there's no de-facto standard for that at this time that I'm aware of but
most seem to like the ESC key that I've been buying lately. When you first
boot turn your monitor on first and boot, it will hopefully say something
about which key to press to enter setup, if not then while it's still
receiving a signal try rebooting it again just to see if it does so. If it
does then you will want to press whatever key/combination of keys are
required to enter the BIOS setup utility.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes