Re: USB Legacy in BIOS

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I'm not sure I understand what you said.

It sure sounds like leaving Legacy enabled would cover ALL bases, and if
that's the case, I wonder why there's even an option to disable the Legacy?
Hmmm, but that sounds too simplistic.

So I guess one might "assume" that it's normally preferable not to select it
(Legacy), unless you know you are going to need it - for reasons that are
still unclear.

Lil' Dave wrote:
Sometimes the legacy thing is a problem for the keyboard on some older
motherboards. I leave the bios set to stop on any fault (default). These
motherboards I'm talking about can't find a USB keyboard with legacy
disabled. And, you can't get to the bios to change it as the bios can't
find a keyboard. All the ones I've found like this also had a PS/2 port
for
a keyboard. So, in this case, you might as well stick with a PS/2
keyboard.

XP seems to know what to do with legacy and USB, and uses the USB
communication version hardware. Motherboard mounted that is.

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Dave
"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So it would be best to leave that option on, in case you ever wanted it,
for such cases? Is there any drawback to leaving that legacy enabled?

Lil' Dave wrote:
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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