No keyboard response after booting NT 4.

Sounds like your NT is not recognizing the drivers for the hardware.

http://www.compaq.com/support/files/

Choose Armada under the notebook section.
Choose the Armada 7400 family, model, and NT.
etc.
follow the links and instructions.

Hi,

I dont know whether this will help you but a similar problem happened to me with Win2K.
I had a Win2K server running on a pretty much gutted PC. No Screen, keyboard, mouse or sound card.

Then I needed to get to it directly because VNC (a remote console program) wouldn't do what I needed. So I plugged in a screen, keyboard & mouse...

BUT... the mouse and keyboard weren't recognised!

So.. I tried a serial mouse and voila it worked... but I didn't have an option for another keyboard...its all PS2 from the motherboard...

So, I assume Win2K detected I didn't have a keyboard attached and automatically disabled it! The mouse was "new", being serial so that worked.

I tried booting to safe mode to get in but... nothing.

Inthe end I had to re-install the OS (which wasn't really a problem as I was going to do that anyway) and the only thing I didn't try was ummm... command mode or recovery mode (whatever its called) during the boot. That may have worked.

The thing that puzzles me is... a laptop? Surely NT couldn't have "lost contact" with it to disable it?

Dont know whether this'll help...
...but Good Luck and be sure to post your solution back here!

Cheers,
Tim.