Is it Worth Saving?

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Probably not. That won't stop me from trying. I'm just curious if anyone has any insight into what's wrong, specifically. There's a super-old desktop at the call center I work at that's running an OS in the range of Windows 98. It's used to monitor security cameras for a company that we take the phones for. Randomly today it decided to stop accepting commands from the keyboard. Okay, that's fine. We thought maybe the connection [one of the old ones, I think it's called a PS2? I'm not 100%. The ones where the mouse & keyboard were similar, not hot-swappable & semi-serial in that they had pins inside. rounded... Someone has to have some idea what I'm talking about. I could probably google it, but my internet has been wonky, only loading 1 out of every 6 pages I've tried to access this evening, so now that Mylot is working I don't want to tempt fate :P] of the cord had gotten loose when someone dusted the system yesterday. [Just slid it out from where it was sitting and dusted it, no rough stuff, and nothing internal.] So, shut down the computer, unplugged and replugged in the keyboard, and now it won't boot. The computer just freezes on the little Compaq loading screen. It still won't acknowledge the keyboard, so I don't have a way of getting into the boot menu to even boot from safe mode. I tried hooking up a USB keyboard and rebooting, but it still wouldn't take. [from any of the ports that I tried.] So, I gave up. It's not my system to open up, so my work is done in that department. :P So, do you think the computer has just had it? Has this ever happened to you? Don't you just love technology?