Help! eCS is not responding to my hand signals!

Post #26,332 by cwbrenn 1/29/02 12:28:10 PM Reply	Help! eCS is not responding to my hand signals! Literally. As soon as the WPS boots I loose any ability to use my keyboard or my mouse. I don't know why, I don't know what changed in my configuration. This is really evil... "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #26,335 by Another Scott 1/29/02 12:35:39 PM Reply	Boot from floppy? Unplug keyboard? You need to figure out whether it's a hardware or software problem. Have you tried unplugging the keyboard and mouse and plugging them back in? But, I suspect software. Will it boot from floppies? Is the keyboard OK then? If so, try using a backed-up version of your .INI files. And try running Henk's WPTOOLs on the INI files (if they're compatible with ECS). That's about all I can think of. :-( HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #26,401 by cwbrenn 1/29/02 4:42:05 PM Reply	Here is what I've done: - Unplugged the keyboard and mouse from my Belkin Omni switchbox and plugged them directly into the computer - switched mouse and keyboard - switched to an older (known working) config.sys In all cases, I can boot to the command prompt and use my keyboard without any problem -- which is one step up from booting from floppy. I'm not exactly sure what the real problem is. One thing I can remember, a while back I was trying to get a W95 game to run under odin, and when it did my keyboard and mouse locked up (had to cold boot) I suppose that might have... er... broken something. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #26,410 by Another Scott 1/29/02 5:08:35 PM Reply	Maybe the keyboard and mouse drivers got corrupted. Check to see if your x:\\os2\\boot\\ibmkb.sys , \\kbdbase.sys, and \\mouse.sys look reasonable. Look with an editor and see if it indicates that they're OS/2 files. It sounds to me like something got overwritten or corrupted. Does your bad config.sys have the proper BASEDEV and DEVICE statements? BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS DEVICE=x:\\os2\\mdos\\vmouse.sys DEVICE=x:\\os2\\boot\\mouse.sys serial=com2 DEVINFO=KBD,US,x:\\os2\\keyboard.dcp That's about all that seems relevant from my Warp 3 Connect config.sys. eCS may have different names. Best of luck. Cheers, Scott.

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