Winxp pro Boot Floppy Keyboard problem
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Date: 05/04/04
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 06:18:14 -0700
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>-----Original Message-----
>I am preparing to upgrade the bios of my Albatron 865PE
Pro2 running
>Winxp pro. The computer is running perfectly in every
respect except
>for one game (RON) that continually freezes. I have
exhausted every
>avenue and the bios upgrade is considered because its
there.
>I let XP create a boot floppy and dragged awdflash.exe
and the flash
>upgrade file to the floppy as Albatron advise.
>When I reboot the computer it runs as predicted except at
the A:\
>prompt the cursor is flashing, but the keyboard is dead.
I have tried
>other keyboards and all fail.
>I am confused as the boot floppy appears to have many
keyboard files
>on it, but something gets lost in the floppy boot
sequence.
>I noticed that a normal bootup has an opportunity to Alt
F2 to
>activate an (onboard?)awdflash utility V8.24L, but using
that I get a
>message Source file not found, press F1 to continue....F1
dosnt work
>as again keyboard is dead.
>I have upgraded the keyboard software using the viewsonic
slimline
>setup, but that made no difference so I rolled back to
the original
>microsoft driver which as said works sweet for everything
except the
>boot floppy.
>Any advice appreciated.
>
>regards
>
>Peter Simpson
>simpson@xtra.co.nz
>.
>
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