# Keyboard error
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 2, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261 "2007-10-02T14:48:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/1 "2007-10-02T14:48:21Z")
I recently moved and for some reason, my PC no longer works well. I moved it in my car and replugged everything the way I normally do.
The system tells me “keyboard error” and nothing I’ve done so far will help. I’ve replugged each item - in various order, but nothing so far helps.
The keyboard lights flash briefly once at startup - then nothing.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/2 "2007-10-02T15:00:06Z")
Any chance it is an older PC and you swapped the keyboard and mouse connections?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/3 "2007-10-02T15:00:39Z")
Are you sure you haven’t plugged the keyboard and mouse into each others’ sockets? This will cause some machines to halt on boot.
If it isn’t that, try picking the keyboard up and dropping it (just a couple of inches) onto the desk - in case a key got jammed down in transit.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/4 "2007-10-02T15:01:40Z")
And if it isn’t that, you might also want to take a look at the pins inside the keyboard connector - check that one of them hasn’t got bent or damaged.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/5 "2007-10-02T15:15:21Z")
Is it a USB keyboard? If so, try disconnecting all other USB devices.
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/6 "2007-10-02T16:09:55Z")
failing those, borrow a known good keyboard from someone and try it.
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyboard-error/421261/7 "2007-10-02T16:59:13Z")
Thanks everyone. I’ll try all of these tonight.