mjirwin
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Problem Getting Into BIOS
I have an interesting problem. I have a motherboard with bad PS2 connectors, so PS2 keyboards/mice don't work on this system, USB keyboards/mice work fine.
On most computers there is a setting in the BIOS that allows support for USB keyboards/mice to work from power on. I believe this setting is disabled in BIOS because USB keyboards/mice don't work until windows is loaded.
I need to reinstall XP on this machine but I need to press a key to boot from the XP CD, and thats not possible the way things are set at the moment.
Is there any way to get into BIOS without pressing a key, maybe some secret utility disc or something?
I have already tried resetting the BIOS to default by using the clear BIOS jumper.
The motherboard is an ASUS P4R800-VM.
On most computers there is a setting in the BIOS that allows support for USB keyboards/mice to work from power on. I believe this setting is disabled in BIOS because USB keyboards/mice don't work until windows is loaded.
I need to reinstall XP on this machine but I need to press a key to boot from the XP CD, and thats not possible the way things are set at the moment.
Is there any way to get into BIOS without pressing a key, maybe some secret utility disc or something?
I have already tried resetting the BIOS to default by using the clear BIOS jumper.
The motherboard is an ASUS P4R800-VM.
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Sparkmaker, great idea, but unfortunately, it asks me to press a key after I instern disk 2.
too bad, what about running the xp cd in windows as it has an install option there also.
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Unfortunately, I need to do the repair install because windows does not come up all the way at this point.
This looks interesting
http://www.accesskeyboards.co.uk/AT2SER.htm
http://www.accesskeyboards.co.uk/AT2SER.htm
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SOLVED: What I ended up doing was a BIOS upgrade, which luckily had the USB legacy support enabled by default. USB keyboard now works from power up, all problems resolved.
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Unfortunately, like many of the questions I ask here, I solved it myself. I just don't have a way to mark it as such.
mjirwin,
Open a new Question in the following zone and ask them to close the Q for your. Include a link to this Q so they know what you want closed:
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Open a new Question in the following zone and ask them to close the Q for your. Include a link to this Q so they know what you want closed:
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mjirwin, is there something not working with opening a new Q in the link I posted above and asking there to get this Q closed? If so, can you please post what isn't working so we can try to help further?
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mjirwin,
If you can't close the Q for some reason then please say so, so we can guide to a way of closing it.
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rindi,
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If you can't close the Q for some reason then please say so, so we can guide to a way of closing it.
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rindi,
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Check http://www.bootdisk.com/
I ran into the same problem once except my PS 2 ports weren't bad, I just didn't have a PS2 keyboard at the time. If they are bad on your system, its probably time to replace it.
If the bootdisk doesn't work then you are about out of options.
Good luck!