keyboard inoperative in BIOS setup page

[j a beagle]

I am building a video editing machine to run Sony Movie Studio Pro 9.  The machine consists of:
an Antec P180B tower with water cooling added
an Antec 550 watt power supply
an ASUS mobo P5W DH-Deluxe with Wi Fi
a Lite-On CD burner, DVD burner and blu-ray (SATA) drive
4 SATA WD 320 gb, 3 ghz drives (2 in a RAID 0 set)
1 IDE 160 gb drive for software
2 X1950 ATI Radeon graphics cards in Crossfire
1 Rosewell flash card reader
1 1.4 mb floppy disk
The CPU is a Pentium D 3 ghz with a 800 mhz FSB
The RAM is OCZ 8 gb DDR 6400

Everything works first crack out of the box.  While I was downloading new drivers from Creative Labs and ATI, This wierd thing happened.  I went into the BIOS screen to set up the RAID and found my keyboard was not working.  It works for three seconds after the BIOS screen pops up and then the "NUM LOCK" led comes on and the board freezes up as if I had pulled the plug.
It's pretty hard to set up without a keyboard.  I must have caused the problem while mucking around in the BIOS.  Can anyone help me straighten it out?

[Aegis]

USB keyboard, or the old-fashioned ps/2 plugin keyboard?

[j a beagle]

Either one.  I have both types.  PS/2 is currently plugged in.

[Salmon Trout]

Might need to do a warranty return on that motherboard.

[j a beagle]

Thanks for your reply, but that is a bitter pill to swallow.

                                               j a b

[patio]

If you remove the CMOS battery for 20 minutes the BIOS will revert back to the default settings....in case it's a change you made incorrectly.

[j a beagle]

Tried re-setting the BIOS by removing the battery.  Still no keys after 3 seconds.

[Salmon Trout]

Thanks for your reply, but that is a bitter pill to swallow.

The whole point about metaphorical "bitter pills", and the literal ones prescribed by your doctor is that they have to be swallowed!

[patio]

Are you sure that's the correct RAM for that board ? ?

[j a beagle]

Yes it shows up in BIOS and registers in windows (the old 32 bit copy on the HDD.

[Salmon Trout]

Yes it shows up in BIOS and registers in windows (the old 32 bit copy on the HDD.

That's as maybe, but is it listed as compatible by the board maker? (I believe this i what Patio means)

[j a beagle]

It is more RAM than Win xp 32 bit can use but it is listed as usable by ASUS (board maker).  Total RAM is 8 gb.

[patio]

Drop it to 4 and see what happens...

I still think it's not the right RAM for that board from what i've read...

[j a beagle]

Finally got Win xp x64 to load.  Install went fine.  Keyboard problem fixed itself after XP 64 was on line.  It sees all the RAM (all 8 gb) and the beer is on me!  P A R T Y