Problem with motherboard

Some board bios allows you to press F 1, or another key to get past it. May be an open fuse right by the PS/2 plugins. You can get a USB to dual PS/2 adaptor. Sky.

Mice and keyboards are cheaper than motherboards - try switching to USB. Another solution that might be of some small value if you have another computer and a network set up is to use a full video remote control program, such as VNC or PCAnywhere, or a remote keyboard/mouse solution such as Synergy.

The usual cause is an SMT capacitor failure which shorts one of the PS/2 signal lines to ground. Intermittent is harder to track down than permanent failure, but usually probing the signal lines with a scope while pressing keys will reveal which signal is the problem. Removing the corresponding capacitor to ground usually clears the fault, but the cap should be replaced as it protects the super i/o chip from spikes on the PS/2 signals.

Sunny

Thanks for the Info that you have posted I will try to look into that. One more thing the lights on the keyboard stay on even after the computer shuts off does that indicate that there is a short or a capacitor problem?

This happens to me faily often- For me it's the connector. A wiggle and it goes away.

That sometimes happens to me when it boots properly all I do is to wiggle the connector and try a couple of times.