Re: Why do I need a SERIAL keyboard during Windows Installation?

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Hot-text,
I mentioned my experiences with my fujitsu-siemens PC and USB keyboard, purely because it was another example where enabling of USB support feature in the BIOS settings was needed before the keyboard would function correctly in pre-windows text-based environments (such as the OS choices menu, the [F8] Startup-menu, the Recovery Console and starting with a MS-DOS boot disk).

I sincerely doubt that the installation of the (OPOS) Support software, you mentioned, would make any difference to the current setup of my PC.

This is because of the type of pre-windows environments that the keyboard needed the "USB legacy support" feature in the BIOS enabled in order to function.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Hot-text" <hot-text@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23Ku7JbHbKHA.2160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/retailing/support/drivers/opos/
Known Issues

Under certain Windows XP environments the 133PQ Keyboard is not enumerated correctly during installation on the TeamPoS 2000 resulting in some of the Keyboard functionality (e.g., the MSR) being non-operational under OPOS. To resolve this issue, the BIOS Setup setting for ACPI should be set to Enabled - PRIOR TO THE INSTALLATION OF THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM to permit the correct enumeration of the keyboard device and proper operations.

For an installation where the BIOS Setting for ACPI was set to Disabled during Windows XP installation, Microsoft has provided a work-around for this issue - that involves the disabling of TermDD.sys - in the form of a registry change as follows:

Under the registry key:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermDD

Set the "Start" key value to be "4" then reboot the system.


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"Tim Meddick" <timmeddick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uppZ4Z8aKHA.5472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Further to the suggestions made by "Hot-text", I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic desktop PC and to get the USB keyboard to work in the "text-based" areas of Windows (i.e: Startup-menu, Recovery Console or Window's "clean" installation) it was necessary to choose an option in the BIOS under "Advanced" > "Peripherals" named : "Enable USB legacy support".

Whereas, I don't think that the item you require in the BIOS will be in exactly the same place on the menus or have exactly the same name as the one I needed to change, I DO think it will be called something quite similar to : "Enable USB legacy support"...

Another point I should mention; the USB keyboard IS recognised by the BIOS on my PC but need to set the "Enable USB legacy support" option to allow the keyboard to function in the "startup menu" [F8] and other text-based areas of Windows.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Kansenji" <Kansenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A5049B5D-9CA4-47CC-A460-B79A8C4C0A5D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I installed & re-installed Windows XP, I inserted a floppy disk
containing the RAID drivers as requested & was told to "press any key" to
continue. I discovered that my USB keyboard (& mouse) would not operate
before windows installation & had to find an old "serial" keyboard just so
that my key press worked (and the RAID drivers installed).

Is there any way of avoiding having to swap keyboards from USB to serial? Is
there a setting in the Amibios that will allow the USB keyboard to work to
install the RAID drivers?

I am about to do a fresh install of Windows 7 and want to be prepared.


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