keyboard stopped working

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I have a laptop (tohiba satellite m35x-s114) with windows 98 on it whose
keyboard stopped working. I set it aside for about 4 months and then I had
the bright idea that it might be a windows problem so I fired the computer
up with mint12 (live) and it just started beeping at the very first screen
(before bios). So I restated it again pressing the esc key and it loaded
from the cd-rom but the keyboard still doesn't work. So I did it again
..... sometimes it will load the cd but sometimes I get the BIOS screen.
(it all depends on how long I hold the esc key down)
I found that when I put a USB keyboard on it the computer will start.Will
updating the BIOS help it? Or how do I fix the BIOS so it will initialize
the keyboard?

The BIOS screen says:

<Bios name and copyright info>
EAL21 BIOS Version V2.00
CPU = Intel (R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.30GHz
247M System RAM Passed
1024K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
Fixed Disk 0: <type>
ATAPI CD-ROM: <type>
Mouse initialized

Then at the bottom of the screen it says to press f2 for setup and to press
f12 for boot device selection menu.
And the incessant beeping stats again after a second or so or it boots the
cd-rom.
Hmmmmmm.... Isn't the BIOS screen supposed to say 'Initializing keyboard'?
it seems the BIOS no longer initializes the keyboard. Does anyone know if I
can fix this? Or did this laptop go to the great bit-bucket in the sky?


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