problems booting up

[txwavman]

never seen this before but when i boot up this particular computer the keyboard will work in the bios and will type all you want, i will assume that the mouse will work too. but as soon as the computer starts loading up the keyboard and mouse will not work i cannot do anything without the keyboard to this computer. I have tried to use startup disk but it does me no good cause once it gets to the a: the keyboard will not work, i have canged to bios to boot from cd and cannot do anything cause the computer ask if you wat to boot from cd and i cannot click it or use keys to get to it.
this is a win 98 i am trying o fix this computer fr a friend and have never ran across anyting like this.

can someone please give me some suggestions on how to get around or fix this problem.
i have tried everything that i know to do.

thanks
Brandon

[rpertusio]

Have you tried to use "Setup Defaults" in the BIOS? Maybe some settings have been changed.

USB or PS/2 keyboard and mouse?

Did you bring YOUR keyboard/mouse over and test with them?

- rp

[muno]

Have you tried safe mode?
It might be a driver issue with the keyb/mouse.
That happened once when I replaced ms natural keyb drivers with the correct drivers Wouldn't work anymore.
-M

[txwavman]

i have use defaults on bios with no luck i have also removed the battery from the mb and tried that and still cannot get the mouse or keyboard to do anything. As far as safe mode it will boot up to the safe mode screen but guess what comes up a popup that says you are in safe mode and it used for repairs. You cannot get rid of that window and will not continue beyond that point.