Having found that its not the soundcard but more likely the Windows disk he was trying to install(copy of), he has purchased Windows 98se from eBay. Trying to load this onto his old setup has crashed windows fully, and when he starts up it just goes into MS Dos and no further action is possible. He has tried going into BIOS (delete on startup) and changing the medium to startup from the disk he has bought. There is a problem after going into BIOS and selecting "ccdromca" or "ccdromac" as when the page comes up "select <1> to boot from hard drive or <2> to boot from CD Rom" the keyboard does not work - as in pressing either the numbers on both main strip or number pad or using the arrow keys or trying the mouse or even page up and page down in either number lock on/off, this has no effect on the page and the computer times it out and just restarts from the harddrive into MS Dos. Once in MS Dos via this route the keyboard does not work at all, but it does work when the computer is booted straight from the harddrive.
This has got really puzzling, anyone able to shed a little light please??
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