Re: USB Legacy in BIOS

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In a nutshell, legacy is a reroute of USB keyboard and/or mouse to allow an
OS to use same. XP does not need legacy support of a USB keyboard or mouse.

An example of where legacy support is required of a USB keyboard is real
mode msdos. And, a USB mouse would be addressed as a standard PS/2 mouse in
msdos using its mouse driver with legacy support enabled.

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Dave
"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having some problems with my PC. I went into BIOS and one of the
options
is to enable, disable USB Legacy. What is the purpose of USB Legacy? Also
what will the result be if I leave it disabled?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


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