{"id":3601,"date":"2021-11-04T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3601"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:05:56","slug":"boot-error-keyboard-is-locked-unlock-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/boot-error-keyboard-is-locked-unlock-keyboard\/64846.html","title":{"rendered":"Boot Error Keyboard Is Locked Unlock Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad&#8217;s PC started displaying an error message &#8220;Keyboard is locked &#8211; unlock keyboard&#8221; when booting up on the POST screen.<\/p>\n<p>The motherboard is an ASUS P4S533 with Award BIOS.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried 3 different PS\/2 keyboards and a USB one just in case. I&#8217;ve removed the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS, but now it boots straight to the BIOS setup screen. Since the keyboard still doesn&#8217;t work there&#8217;s nothing I can do in there.<br \/>\nHe says this came on suddenly &#8211; he booted down one night and it was fine, the following day he got the error message.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? Is the motherboard broken or is it (hopefully) something nice and simple?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":23},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}