09-02-2005, 12:28 PM
kandrathe,Sep 2 2005, 05:00 AM Wrote:The keyboard is IBM PC/XT/AT style, and as you guessed pre-PS/2.
Keyboard adapters
Installing OS from that time period required making a boot floppy that enabled the CD-ROM drive (contains the drivers, and entries in Config.sys and/or Autoexec.bat).
Windows Boot Disks
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I have the correct keyboard type. I'm positive it works just fine.
A floppy boot disk won't help me, because the present boot order is set to hdd>floppy>cd-rom, and I can't use the keyboard to change it.
Another thing I should note is that when I got the computer, the floppy drive was crammed full of fridge magenets courtesy of my sweet little cousins. The floppy drive resides right above the hdd. Is it possible that these magnets messed the OS install enough to cause the computer to not accept a keyboard?