Propper family wrote: > I just received an old acer pentium 133 to use as my linux box. Major problem > with it is as soon as I turn the damn thing on it fails to go thru BIOS. It > just stares back at me for a minute then displays "keyboard interface error" > then after another minute "pointing device error." I have replaced the > harddrive with a clean one (after the problem started) and tried to boot from > a > floppy, but still no luck. Does anybody have any suggestions??? Yes, from > what I can see everything is hooked up correctly. I have seen this box work > B4 > the problem.
At a guess I'd say it sounds like you've got the mouse and the keyboard
plugs swapped. This sounds kinda like what happened when I did that with
this machine. Try swapping where they're plugged in and try again.
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