Boot by spacebar stopped working
Here's a puzzler for you. I have an Asus P9X79 system which I've been
using happily for almost five years now. The other day I pressed the spacebar to start the system, and nothing happened. That's weird -- I always boot by pressing the spacebar, but pressing the button on the case started the system, and I went merrily on my way not giving the problem much thought. But the next time I tried to boot, the same thing happened, so I checked BIOS and found the boot by spacebar option was disabled. Well that was weird, as I hadn't been into BIOS in months. So I enabled the option and shut down and then pressed the spacebar -- and nothing happened. Now I did recall that a day earlier my (USB) keyboard wasn't working and when I checked I found I'd dislodged the USB to PS/2 adapter plugged into the MBO. So I pushed the adapter back into place and the keyboard started working again (after a reboot) and I was in business. But now I'm thinking maybe this was the start of my spacebar boot problem? Could this be what disabled the option in BIOS? I dunno. All I know is that now for some reason I can't boot from the keyboard. Even changing from the spacebar option in BIOS to the Ctrl/Esc option makes no difference. Suddenly after all these years, how is is it that I can't boot from the keyboard? I know the keyboard is getting power from the MBO even in the shut-down state, as I can unplug the keyboard while shut down, and when I plug it back in the lights on it flash. But it won't boot the computer. Maybe I need a new MBO battery? The clock is giving me no problems. Other ideas anyone? Help? -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
Boot by spacebar stopped working
Bill Anderson wrote:
Here's a puzzler for you. I have an Asus P9X79 system which I've been using happily for almost five years now. The other day I pressed the spacebar to start the system, and nothing happened. That's weird -- I always boot by pressing the spacebar, but pressing the button on the case started the system, and I went merrily on my way not giving the problem much thought. But the next time I tried to boot, the same thing happened, so I checked BIOS and found the boot by spacebar option was disabled. Well that was weird, as I hadn't been into BIOS in months. So I enabled the option and shut down and then pressed the spacebar -- and nothing happened. Now I did recall that a day earlier my (USB) keyboard wasn't working and when I checked I found I'd dislodged the USB to PS/2 adapter plugged into the MBO. So I pushed the adapter back into place and the keyboard started working again (after a reboot) and I was in business. But now I'm thinking maybe this was the start of my spacebar boot problem? Could this be what disabled the option in BIOS? I dunno. All I know is that now for some reason I can't boot from the keyboard. Even changing from the spacebar option in BIOS to the Ctrl/Esc option makes no difference. Suddenly after all these years, how is is it that I can't boot from the keyboard? I know the keyboard is getting power from the MBO even in the shut-down state, as I can unplug the keyboard while shut down, and when I plug it back in the lights on it flash. But it won't boot the computer. Maybe I need a new MBO battery? The clock is giving me no problems. Other ideas anyone? Help? The BIOS setting is for APM, a subsystem your current OS is not using. My APM section is all switched off. When the OS is booted, go to Device Manager, find the HID device that you want to be starting the computer, do Properties, and one of the tabs on there says "Allow this device to wake the Computer" That's the tick box you want to enable. AFAIK. The motherboard will be using +5VSB to run the USB ports, and that's the power source that makes waking possible. These motherboards don't have the old PWR header plug, to select between +5V (no wake) and +5VSB (wake). They're permanently powered with the +5VSB option for waking. You will also want to check the Device Manager mouse settings. I have one mouse, which when "sleeping", does not turn on the LED under any circumstances. It's only wake input is mouse click. You need to enable that mouse in the Device Manager, then a mouse click works. For my newer Microsoft mouse, the blue LED in that flashes for as long as it has +5VSB, and both mouse movement and button clicks work. I keep that one turned off in the Device Manager, so bumping it doesn't result in a false positive. I think my keyboard is on the combo PS/2 and waking there works off any key. There were motherboards, where the SuperI/O chip had a "filter" on the PS/2 keyboard port. And in the BIOS, you could set detection to four different keyboard key press sequences. The P9X79, I don't see an option for that, and as it's in the APM section, there probably isn't a reason for the OS to look there. Use Device Manager instead and see what is there. Paul |
Boot by spacebar stopped working
On 8/6/2017 10:10 AM, Paul wrote:
Bill Anderson wrote: Here's a puzzler for you. I have an Asus P9X79 system which I've been using happily for almost five years now. The other day I pressed the spacebar to start the system, and nothing happened. That's weird -- I always boot by pressing the spacebar, but pressing the button on the case started the system, and I went merrily on my way not giving the problem much thought. But the next time I tried to boot, the same thing happened, so I checked BIOS and found the boot by spacebar option was disabled. Well that was weird, as I hadn't been into BIOS in months. So I enabled the option and shut down and then pressed the spacebar -- and nothing happened. Now I did recall that a day earlier my (USB) keyboard wasn't working and when I checked I found I'd dislodged the USB to PS/2 adapter plugged into the MBO. So I pushed the adapter back into place and the keyboard started working again (after a reboot) and I was in business. But now I'm thinking maybe this was the start of my spacebar boot problem? Could this be what disabled the option in BIOS? I dunno. All I know is that now for some reason I can't boot from the keyboard. Even changing from the spacebar option in BIOS to the Ctrl/Esc option makes no difference. Suddenly after all these years, how is is it that I can't boot from the keyboard? I know the keyboard is getting power from the MBO even in the shut-down state, as I can unplug the keyboard while shut down, and when I plug it back in the lights on it flash. But it won't boot the computer. Maybe I need a new MBO battery? The clock is giving me no problems. Other ideas anyone? Help? The BIOS setting is for APM, a subsystem your current OS is not using. My APM section is all switched off. When the OS is booted, go to Device Manager, find the HID device that you want to be starting the computer, do Properties, and one of the tabs on there says "Allow this device to wake the Computer" That's the tick box you want to enable. AFAIK. The motherboard will be using +5VSB to run the USB ports, and that's the power source that makes waking possible. These motherboards don't have the old PWR header plug, to select between +5V (no wake) and +5VSB (wake). They're permanently powered with the +5VSB option for waking. You will also want to check the Device Manager mouse settings. I have one mouse, which when "sleeping", does not turn on the LED under any circumstances. It's only wake input is mouse click. You need to enable that mouse in the Device Manager, then a mouse click works. For my newer Microsoft mouse, the blue LED in that flashes for as long as it has +5VSB, and both mouse movement and button clicks work. I keep that one turned off in the Device Manager, so bumping it doesn't result in a false positive. I think my keyboard is on the combo PS/2 and waking there works off any key. There were motherboards, where the SuperI/O chip had a "filter" on the PS/2 keyboard port. And in the BIOS, you could set detection to four different keyboard key press sequences. The P9X79, I don't see an option for that, and as it's in the APM section, there probably isn't a reason for the OS to look there. Use Device Manager instead and see what is there. Paul, you are right as usual. I don't know how you do it, but I do admire you for it. I'm booting from my spacebar again. Thanks so much. But I am still puzzled. While I concede I do forget things more easily now in my advanced age, I still have no recollection of ever once in my life finding "keyboards" in Device Manager and ticking that checkbox. I have always set this up in BIOS. At least I think so. And yes, the option on the P9X79 is indeed buried under APM, making it difficult to find. But I did find it when I set up my computer almost 5 years ago (Win7 then) and the keyboard boot option has been working fine ever since. That's why I was so surprised to find it disabled under APM yesterday. (There are two keyboard boot options there, spacebar and Ctrl/Esc, along with other options like "boot from call" and ... I don't remember the others.) Whatever, I now see how this works and I'll make a note to myself to look under Device Manager if problems like this arise again. Thanks. Genuine thanks. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
Boot by spacebar stopped working
Bill Anderson wrote:
On 8/6/2017 10:10 AM, Paul wrote: Bill Anderson wrote: Here's a puzzler for you. I have an Asus P9X79 system which I've been using happily for almost five years now. The other day I pressed the spacebar to start the system, and nothing happened. That's weird -- I always boot by pressing the spacebar, but pressing the button on the case started the system, and I went merrily on my way not giving the problem much thought. But the next time I tried to boot, the same thing happened, so I checked BIOS and found the boot by spacebar option was disabled. Well that was weird, as I hadn't been into BIOS in months. So I enabled the option and shut down and then pressed the spacebar -- and nothing happened. Now I did recall that a day earlier my (USB) keyboard wasn't working and when I checked I found I'd dislodged the USB to PS/2 adapter plugged into the MBO. So I pushed the adapter back into place and the keyboard started working again (after a reboot) and I was in business. But now I'm thinking maybe this was the start of my spacebar boot problem? Could this be what disabled the option in BIOS? I dunno. All I know is that now for some reason I can't boot from the keyboard. Even changing from the spacebar option in BIOS to the Ctrl/Esc option makes no difference. Suddenly after all these years, how is is it that I can't boot from the keyboard? I know the keyboard is getting power from the MBO even in the shut-down state, as I can unplug the keyboard while shut down, and when I plug it back in the lights on it flash. But it won't boot the computer. Maybe I need a new MBO battery? The clock is giving me no problems. Other ideas anyone? Help? The BIOS setting is for APM, a subsystem your current OS is not using. My APM section is all switched off. When the OS is booted, go to Device Manager, find the HID device that you want to be starting the computer, do Properties, and one of the tabs on there says "Allow this device to wake the Computer" That's the tick box you want to enable. AFAIK. The motherboard will be using +5VSB to run the USB ports, and that's the power source that makes waking possible. These motherboards don't have the old PWR header plug, to select between +5V (no wake) and +5VSB (wake). They're permanently powered with the +5VSB option for waking. You will also want to check the Device Manager mouse settings. I have one mouse, which when "sleeping", does not turn on the LED under any circumstances. It's only wake input is mouse click. You need to enable that mouse in the Device Manager, then a mouse click works. For my newer Microsoft mouse, the blue LED in that flashes for as long as it has +5VSB, and both mouse movement and button clicks work. I keep that one turned off in the Device Manager, so bumping it doesn't result in a false positive. I think my keyboard is on the combo PS/2 and waking there works off any key. There were motherboards, where the SuperI/O chip had a "filter" on the PS/2 keyboard port. And in the BIOS, you could set detection to four different keyboard key press sequences. The P9X79, I don't see an option for that, and as it's in the APM section, there probably isn't a reason for the OS to look there. Use Device Manager instead and see what is there. Paul, you are right as usual. I don't know how you do it, but I do admire you for it. I'm booting from my spacebar again. Thanks so much. But I am still puzzled. While I concede I do forget things more easily now in my advanced age, I still have no recollection of ever once in my life finding "keyboards" in Device Manager and ticking that checkbox. I have always set this up in BIOS. At least I think so. And yes, the option on the P9X79 is indeed buried under APM, making it difficult to find. But I did find it when I set up my computer almost 5 years ago (Win7 then) and the keyboard boot option has been working fine ever since. That's why I was so surprised to find it disabled under APM yesterday. (There are two keyboard boot options there, spacebar and Ctrl/Esc, along with other options like "boot from call" and ... I don't remember the others.) Whatever, I now see how this works and I'll make a note to myself to look under Device Manager if problems like this arise again. Thanks. Genuine thanks. No problem. Glad it works. Paul |
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