Motherboard nforce al-400 wont detect the keyboard. So I can not access the BIOS or do anything. Someone told me to try a USB k/b, but that obviously wont work either, since the keyboard wont activate until windows loads, or wont activate until BIOS is set to turn it on. Since I can not get into BIOS, then that wont work.

Any other suggestions? Trash the board? I really dont see ANY way to resolve this problem besides having it worked on, which wouldnt be worth the price, I could buy another new board for that price.

Maybe someone out here knows.



THANKS

KNIGhTMETaL

You could try resetting the BIOS by either using the jumper on the board that will be specified in you MB documentation or removing the BIOS battery for an hour and then replacing it to see if it then detects the keyboard. I would suspect that if this doesn't work then a new MB will be required.

Please post results.

Thank you for the information, I have tried that and it doesnt work.

so I am going to :smash: it,


THANKs

KnIgHtMeTaL

Are you sure of the motherboard make and model? (nforce al-400)

I didn't get much with a Google search on the above.

nforce2 al-400 or 400-al

That appears to be the chipset of the board but not the board ID itself.

Is there not a label such as ABIT or ASUS etc.

Also if you remove all of your RAM and power up does it BEEP?

yes beeps changed the memory still always the same thing!\

help

As can be seen from this page http://www.nvidia.com/content/mother...ability/us.asp it's a chipset as jephree stated.

Can you see any vendor silkscreening on the motherboard as to make (ie; Gigabyte, Abit, ASUS, Biostar, MSI, etc) or a silkscreened model number (GA-xxxx-xx, K7M, TFORCE xx, P4N-xxx-xx, etc)? These (ID's) are generally around the center of the board, sometimes between the AGP/PCI etc slots.

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/Product...400-AL%20b.jpg

this is the one I got, no printing on the board.

on the purple port it says nforce2 400-al


Edit Note: Fixed URL link.