Added hard drive, board hangs on "initializing keyboard controlle

System was working fine (845 G-Max L board), added new Seagate hard drive as slave, booted up, and D-LED panel now hangs on "initializing keyboard controller." I can't even boot up enough to play with BIOS settings. No other changes were made but adding a second hard drive. Even after disconnecting the second hard drive, I still have the same problem. Is the hardware damaged somehow, or is there any way to reset the motherboard?

Is this procedure (CMOS jumper) explained in the manual? (I am at work right now). The power supply has never had problems and powered a previous extra hard drive just fine. Is there any potential issues with the RAM?

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K8N Neo Platinum hangs at "Initializing Keyboard Controller" step in POST

Hi Folks,
Here is my system:
MSI K8N Neo Platinum (New in box) (no clue on bios version, as I can't access it yet)
Athlon 64 3200+ 2200Mhz, 640Kb Cache
Thermaltake CL-P0025 Silent Tower CPU Cooler (VERY careful installing this)
2x512MB Mushkin 991460 EM3200 400Mhz DDR (
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WD 74GB Raptor
Plextor 712A DVD/CD (SATA)
Here is my dilema: box powers up, POST stops at "Initializing Keyboard Controller". ( I know this because the little lights on the D-bracket tell me so.....:-) I have been on these forums as well as AMD's forums all day now, and have tried everything suggested, except swapping PS. But I think I have an adequate model.
One by one, I have disconnected any sources of possible problems. I have reset my bios too many times to count. I have isolated the MB outside of the case. I have re-seated everything numerous times. I changed Bios battery. I've swapped RAM, and it's positions. Even took it all off. I even bought another K8N from Ebay, and have the exact same results. At no time has the status lights displayed anything different, except for a quick change in color of light number 3 when I do a front-panel reset. Right now I have nothing but the processor on the board and I still have the same result; POST hanging at "Initializing keyboard controller". I have swapped keyboards unplugged the keyboard.
I am leaning toward the processor now. What am I missing? Should I just do an RMA and be done with it?
Suggestions encouraged......
James

Quote from: sincity337 on 04-August-05, 12:22:07
Bowen,
I've got an old Asus P2B that still runs like a champ, although slow by todays standards. You are right about it being rock solid, I have never had a problem with it, not one. As a matter of fact I still have it and I use it for my "linux box". Oops, a little off topic.
Anyway, it looks like MSI received the board today. I will start the stopwatch and see how long it takes to get a replacement board. I'll keep you guys posted.
James
Yeah those boards were the best I've seen. The Intel 865 chipsets are pretty good too. My previous 845 based mobo was nice as well. In the past, using VIA boards have been hit and miss with me. The K8T800/Pro and K8T900/Pro seem to be very stable though...still I would get an nForce 4 chipset over the newest VIA boards.
This is OT but I just received my shiny new BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC card a few days ago and I was very surprised at it's performance. I was using a crappy Radeon X300 because I needed a temp card until I could buy either a 7800 GTX or the upcoming Radeon X900 XT. My last system I had a Radeon 9800 Pro and it ran flawlessly. I only had one problem with that card and it was driver related to only one game. The game was Call of Duty and that issue was resolved by going down to an older driver, but then ATi corrected the problem with a new driver release. Anyway as fast as the 7800 GTX is, I hated it! The reason is that despite it's awesome speed; the only way I can put it, is that it doesn't run games as smooth as Radeon's do. It was especially bad with Battlefield 2. This is ironic because BF2 is supposed to be optimized for nVidia cards.
It has a bad stuttering problem with BF2 and allot of people have this issue. Some have this problem with ATi cards but most are nVidia users. Even when I set the quality down to the same settings as my 9800P was at, it did the same thing. Other games like Counter-Strike: Source ran fine unless you had bots. Heh, even my slow X300 ran games more smoothly (not faster and at a much lower resolution and quality setting but still smoother) than the 7800 GTX. I sent the card back and I'm getting a full refund. I'm waiting on ATi to release their X900 XT and I'll buy that. What's strange is that prior to buying my 9800P two years ago, I had only used nVidia cards since the TnT2. Well times have changed I guess. Oh well, I guess I had to learn the hard way, but at least this way I know I'm getting the right card!

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I get a humming low freq Hum from my MacPro from adding or added hard drives. I am using Seagates 320's ( 3 - non raid ). The MP is under my desk and I think some may not hear what I do if sitting on a desktop.
I can't figure out if it's a ground loop issue, more than one drive spinning at the same speed or some mechanical isssue, like metal to metal contact.
Just one drive with the OS. The Hum if still there is not something I am aware of or bothers me. But your room must be quiet to hear ir best.

As I mentioned before, some people will not hear the "hum" if the MP is sitting on your desk ( or one hard drive ) . Mine is under a large desk that is 6' long, which kinda amplifies the sound and creates a sound box for the low freq hum. Some what like adding a subwoofer. But when you add one or more drives it will Hum and I think I know the cause.
One is there is no isolation ( ie rubber ) between the hard drive mounting system, the (metal) inside frame and outer (metal) case. This causes the MP to become or act like a tuning fork.
For those who do hear the hum sound, you can take both hands on either side of the MP and "squeeze" the sides and hear the sound get lower. Take your hands off and hear it louder. So the whole MP is vibrating or creating "noise" or low freq Hum ( tuning fork) .
The problem is some what resolved with using 2 drives if you mount one in bay 1 and the second in bay 4. ( not side by side ) In other words, the sound is amplified to a higher degree if you have matching drives ( non raid ) next to eachother.
This issue will drive you nuts if you have it or can hear it. The MP stock 2.66 thats a month old is what I have. Maybe some other Macs don't show this same sound.
Whats interesting is the metal case, both outer and inter being connected as a "rigid unit" is causing or lets say, making matters worse. The other of which I have not plotted the freq, I think is around 60hz which just so happens to be the same as your " AC power". So the humming could sound like a ground loop, when in fact the sound originates from the hard drive and is being magnfied by the rigid non insulated MP that might be inhancing it's own "resonate frequency"and acting like a tuning fork.
Now if I am right and the MP is reacting as a tuning fork. What is the solution? I don't really know. And I have not tried any so called fixes other than switching bays. I have some ideas. But only those that would not cause a warrenty issue.
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Crosair TWINX1024 XMS DDR400 PC3200 and Initializing Keyboard Controller Problem

If you have the Crosair TWINX1024 XMS memory modules and the D-Bracket reports an LED error with Initializing the Keyboard Controller, it is most likely due to having to manually set the memory latency settings in the bios and not the keyboard controller. Once you switch to 2-3-3-6 the system should run stable.
All along I tried different keyboards and RMA'd one board, but the keyboard was not the problem as I am still using the original keyboard. If anyone else experiences this problem and has Crosair ram I suggest you unplug the PSU switch it to off position and reset the CMOS with the jumper. You must wait a while to boot, but once booted you must set the memory settings manually again for the system to work properly. Good luck to anyone having this problem and hopefully this helps out.

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Just got back home from a movie system had been running fine all day I was back in this forum and all of a sudden the mouse would not move anymore. I turned off the system and back on and it had the lower left green LED on and the rest were red. Big surprise! Initializing Keyboard Controller. Guess it locked up after all I don't know if I want to keep this ram or switch to something else like kingston or ocz, I'm getting sick of this problem with crosair ram.
I don't think it is "corsair" ram. If anything it is "your" memory as I have ran some 3500 bh5 modules and these 4000pros with samsung memory all corsair havent had the problem once and I have had two of these boards now.

Initializing Keyboard Controller

Okay I assume this board is hosed but can anyone say yes or no. Is it repairable. Actually I have 2 MSI boards both k7t's that have blown in the last t mos. This is a business and the MSI boards don't have a great track record right now.
Anyway today a user is going along and the mouse/keyboard stops responding. Putting the machine up on the becnh I get the DLED combo 0100 for
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Other mobo is worse of it gets to 0000 and nothing happens. I let the mobo set for about 48 hours and tried it again. The system ran for about 4 hours, black screened and then same thing. S/N 0AKU848345

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I just assembled my computer, and my MSI K8N Neo is hanging at the initializing keyboard controller d bracket light. The speaker is also just making constant beeps, like 1 second on, 3 seconds off, etc.
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I have an HP DV 6000 laptop (6276 I think, I'm at work can't check) that came preinstalled with a Western Digital 160gb 1.5gb/s 5400 RPM drive (Vista) that failed a couple of weeks ago. So i bought a Western Digital 750 GB WD Black SATA III 7200 RPM 16 MB drive to replace it. I read about people having some problems with Advanced Drive Format hard drives not being recognized by their controller, but also read that depending on the controller and specific Dv6000 model laptop they had-one wouldn't run into problems.
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"Our SATA II hard drives use autospeed negotiation. This enables our SATA II drives to automatically detect the motherboard data transfer rate, making it backward compatible with SATA I data transfer rates. However, some older SATA I controllers are unable to support autospeed negotiation and cannot recognize the drive. This “drive not detected” condition occurs when a chipset is incapable of correctly negotiating the data transfer speed with a SATA II hard drive."
my drive is a SATA ||| but I'm pretty sure it's the same problem. The site goes on to say a fix would be to "purchase and install a third party PCI or PCI-Express Second Generation Serial ATA controller card for your Serial ATA hard drive(s)."
My question(s) are.
1)Is the problem that I am trying to install a Sata ||| hard drive on a laptop with a controller that will only recognize SATA | hard drive?
2) Or is the problem that the hard drive is an Advanced Drive Formatted hard drive and I need to buy a hard drive with out that specification?
3) Or Should I buy a SATA controller card as WD suggests on their website and if so will this definitely allow my laptop's controller to recognize the new hard drive and proceed with the installation?
4)Or Should I just return the hard drive and buy a SATA | non Advanced Drive Format hard drive? (question 2 basically)
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Hi @jasmine00
Welcome to the HP Support Forums.
I certainly understand your issue with the drive upgrade. Unfortunately it is a bit of the nature of notebooks, the sacrifice of a large amount of upgradeability, in exchange for compactness and portability. Whenever a new technology comes out, older notebooks are never really going to be easy to upgrade, it at all. Normally the unit as a whole is tested with a set list of hardware, and only those items are supported.
That being said there is this document that could be helpful with your problem.
Preparing Advanced Format hard drives for Microsoft Windows installations on HP Business Notebook PC...
And for your reference:
HP Pavilion dv6000 Notebook PC Maintenance and Service Guide
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Cleaned out the X1900; add copper cooling kit $29, or look into another ATI card.
Before using any new drive, zero it. And if you have Windows and the drive is backed up or before you put files on it --- do a complete and thorough zero and extended test in Windows using WD's own Diagnostic utility - much better, reliable, and does map out bad blocks while Disk Utility and other OS X tools rarely do. But any new drive... I've had 3 out of 6 need such treatment.
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www.VisionRecordingStudios.com
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When you say; "... I have filled up my hard drive," do you mean your boot drive?
You should maintain at least 10% free space on ALL drives, especially your boot drive. If you plan on keeping the original boot drive, keep your applications and project files there. Move any captured or imported media, renders, etc. that FCP uses for your projects to the second internal drive. Next time you launch FCP, reset the capture/scratch disc to the new internal drive so any future captures and renders will go there. If you do move the media, you'll have to reconnect the various files when you open an on-going project.
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Added hard drive, board hangs on "initializing keyboard controlle

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