Keyboard broke my system?

JJimmyJ

JJimmyJ

JJimmyJ

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Morning all,

Got a new mechanical keyboard yesterday, so excitedly plugged it in and booted up. Well, it completely destroyed my system!!
Made some horrendous clicking noises, so quickly shut down and unplugged.
It then tried to find a restore point in order to boot up, which it did. However, my 'e' drive seemed to be performing slowly. It then blue screened after a few mins. I booted again, and it started fine, drive seemed to be ok, then after about 10 mins it blue screened.
This time it told me the bios was corrupted so it would use the backup bios to start. Restarted successfully, so I shutdown rebooted and went into bios to change IDE to AHCI for my ssd. It rebooted and then told me my other drive 'e' needed checked. So it ran checkdisk, found errors and fixed them.
Is it possible that a keyboard could cause all this? Or could be pure coincidence and my hard-drive is on the way out? I'm at a bit of a loss and scared to plug my new keyboard back in!!
 
never heard of a keyboard causing issues, its just a USB device.

I would check the health of the HDD and make sure it doesn't report back any issues or bad blocks.

use HD tune or the manufactures tools from their website.
 
I would doubt it's the keyboard, myself. I've never heard of anything similar happening..

If the keyboard was actually broken, the worst that would happen is the keyboard wouldn't work or at worst, short out the USB pins to cause the machine not to come on, it would have no interaction with the hard drive.
 
Thanks folks, I figured it's the drive, just a MASSIVE coincidence it's happened when plugging in a new keyboard.
Can't find anything on the internet to suggest otherwise. I know some people have had issues with new mech keyboards not allowing the machine to boot, but not corrupting bios
I'd like to run a proper check on it, and I'll run that HD tune if I can.
 
JJimmyJ said:
just a MASSIVE coincidence it's happened when plugging in a new keyboard.
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I once powered up, but then realised I'd not plugged my CH peripherals in, so hurriedly connected them before Windows had begun.
I immediately got BIOS error messages, to the effect that the system could not start, that it had lost my OC settings and had to revert to the defaults.

Cautiously I OKed that and it then went to start Windows. Start screen appears, but then it stalls and the PC auto-reboots into some kind of boot-loop.

A more-knowlegable-than-me friend ran some disk checks on my OS SSD and the HDD. Finding no errors, he proclaimed my Windows install to be corrupt, so we reinstalled and all has been fine since.

I personally still believe it was my plugging in the peripherals rather than some random and purely coincidental OS failure, as it was working fine just that morning, though.
 
JJimmyJ said:
Nope usb. Would it even fit in sata?
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If you fist is hammy enough, you can fit a usb keyboard into a PS2 port. I have seen this before.


Probably just bad timing.

Does the system work ok with only the SSD connected? Keep adding drives until you have issues. Once you find the problematic drive, buy a new one, restore your data from your backup and bin/RMA the old drive.
 
bledd. said:
If you fist is hammy enough, you can fit a usb keyboard into a PS2 port. I have seen this before.


Probably just bad timing.

Does the system work ok with only the SSD connected? Keep adding drives until you have issues. Once you find the problematic drive, buy a new one, restore your data from your backup and bin/RMA the old drive.
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I'll have a good look this weekend. I'm hoping it's just my hard-drive.
 
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