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USB keyboard issues
Here's one for you pros.
I am trying out a nice wireless USB keyboard/mouse product, all seems to work well in legacy apps and windows. Keyboard works with any legacy boot floppies I've tried. However, if I boot from a USB memory stick, that is setup as a bootable stick, note the stick is actually booting the same files as a win98se startup floppy, the USB keyboard no longer works once the win98se (startup disk) is loaded from the USB memory stick. The keyboard works when I see the startup floppy menu (you know the one, 1. start computer with cdrom support 2. start computer without cdrom support 3. view help file), but once I choose an option and the boot process continues, config.sys and autoexec.bat are processed, and the keyboard no longer works. Any thoughts? Selecting any of the boot options kills the USB wireless keyboard. BTW, a regular PS/2 keyboard works fine with the USB boot stick. The only driver loaded by the system is himem.sys regardless of options 1, 2 or 3 on the win98se startup floppy, so it looks like this driver is somehow killing USB keyboard functionality provided by the BIOS if, and only if, the files are loaded from a USB-HD memory stick type device. If I boot from a standard floppy the USB keyboard works w/o problem. This is a Biostar nforce2 mobo, but since there is no suitable Biostar forum, I thought I'd pick the brains of the Asus jocks. -- Best regards, Kyle |
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USB keyboard issues
Bah, turns out this is probably a bad legacy USB BIOS implementation,
if I plug the keyboard in the front USB slots (a different USB chip) it works, even hot swapping to front USB connectors works, so the rear USB connector I was using for the keyboard must have some legacy DOS issues. I tested the keyboard on another mobo, and no problems at all in any USB connections. You'd think the legacy USB BIOS issues would have been sorted out by 2004 (date of the BIOS), but I guess not. -- Best regards, Kyle "Kyle" wrote in message . .. | Here's one for you pros. | | I am trying out a nice wireless USB keyboard/mouse product, all seems | to work well in legacy apps and windows. Keyboard works with any | legacy boot floppies I've tried. However, if I boot from a USB memory | stick, that is setup as a bootable stick, note the stick is actually | booting the same files as a win98se startup floppy, the USB keyboard | no longer works once the win98se (startup disk) is loaded from the USB | memory stick. The keyboard works when I see the startup floppy menu | (you know the one, 1. start computer with cdrom support 2. start | computer without cdrom support 3. view help file), but once I choose | an option and the boot process continues, config.sys and autoexec.bat | are processed, and the keyboard no longer works. Any thoughts? | Selecting any of the boot options kills the USB wireless keyboard. | | BTW, a regular PS/2 keyboard works fine with the USB boot stick. | | The only driver loaded by the system is himem.sys regardless of | options 1, 2 or 3 on the win98se startup floppy, so it looks like this | driver is somehow killing USB keyboard functionality provided by the | BIOS if, and only if, the files are loaded from a USB-HD memory stick | type device. If I boot from a standard floppy the USB keyboard works | w/o problem. This is a Biostar nforce2 mobo, but since there is no | suitable Biostar forum, I thought I'd pick the brains of the Asus | jocks. | | -- | Best regards, | Kyle | |
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