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re: Invalid keyboard code specified Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:31 am Posted by Steve (23798 messages posted) Maybe keyboard going bad. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:00 am Posted by Sebastian42 (10 messages posted) So you suggest I should try a different keyboard. I can do that, although this one works perfectly. On Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:31 am, Steve wrote: >Maybe keyboard going bad. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23818 messages posted) Well, if it's producing the error message, then I'd say it's NOT working perfectly. On Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:00 am, Sebastian42 wrote: >So you suggest I should try a different keyboard. I can do that, although this one >works perfectly. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 3:58 am Posted by Sebastian42 (10 messages posted) I have tried other keyboards - the message persists. On Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm, Ricer46 wrote: >Well, if it's producing the error message, then I'd say it's NOT working perfectly. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 7:39 am Posted by Steve (23798 messages posted) Reset the Bios back to Default Fail safe settings. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3:31 am Posted by Sebastian42 (10 messages posted) I have never seen such a setting in BIOS, but will look at next opportunity. On Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 7:39 am, Steve wrote: >Reset the Bios back to Default Fail safe settings. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 5:00 am Posted by Alan Masterman (462 messages posted) Hi Sebastian, I know your message is a week old, and maybe you've solved it already, but without knowing the exact nature of the problem, I would think your error message refers to the fact that something or someone has reset the keyboard Code Page to a value which the system doesn't recognise. The default value for DOS/Win9x is Code Page 437. Given various combinations of old operating systems and new software, or new operating systems and old software, various error messages can arise. From my very rusty memory, I seem to recall that you can reset the Code Page by opening the DOS prompt and typing "cp=437", or something very similar (without the quotes, of course). You could Google it to confirm. Try it and see if it makes a difference. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:44 am Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) Under Windows ME, the keyboard is configured by settings in the [keyboard] section of the file SYSTEM.INI (located in the C:\WINDOWS directory), which specifies the name and location of the driver file needed by the system. That section will say something like this - [keyboard] keyboard.dll= oemansi.bin=xlat437.bin subtype= type=4 Check your SYSTEM.INI file. From your description of the problem, the chances are there is a mis-match between the details in the [keyboard] section in it and the actual driver file that's on your disk. Perhaps the file refered to by the section is missing from the folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM ? Copying it back to there (e.g. from a .CAB file in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS) would maybe cure the problem. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 On Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 2:07 am, Sebastian42 wrote: >"Invalid keyboard code specified" has been appearing in my bootscreen recently. The >system seems to work no worse than before, but I'd like to be rid of that 'mention'. >I have looked in BIOS and there does not seem to be reference to keyboard there which >I might edit. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Invalid keyboard code specified Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:45 am Posted by Sebastian42 (10 messages posted) Thank you Ed. I will follow this up for interest, but it is now of 'academic interest' only, as the error message disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared ! On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:44 am, Ed wrote: >Under Windows ME, the keyboard is configured by settings in the [keyboard] section >of the file SYSTEM.INI (located in the C:\WINDOWS directory), which specifies the >name and location of the driver file needed by the system. > > >That section will say something like this - > >[keyboard] >keyboard.dll= >oemansi.bin=xlat437.bin >subtype= >type=4 > >Check your SYSTEM.INI file. From your description of the problem, the chances are >there is a mis-match between the details in the [keyboard] section in it and the >actual driver file that's on your disk. > >Perhaps the file refered to by the section is missing from the folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM >? Copying it back to there (e.g. from a .CAB file in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS) would >maybe cure the problem. > > >See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum