ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet USB Question

How's it going Bill? Any joy yet?

I still find it really strange that there's no regular keyboard port. I imagine you've checked the board inside the machine in case they left one accessible in there?

Not sure if it will help, but, I have an older Gateway here, and if you hit Esc the splash screen will go away and you can see what is going on underneath.

Paul,

No Joy yet because it's still on my table, but I got everything to work with the USB splitter and got XP drivers for the modem and new printer added.

CaOperator,

Thanks for your comments.
I'm not sure about this, but I'm suspecting that the front USB ports on this machine may be secondary accessory ports and not immediately enabled during bootup. The rear ports are damaged though so there's no choice at the moment. But, whatever the reason is it does not take any input from the keyboard at all during bootup.

Bill