Re: Winxp pro Boot Floppy Keyboard problem

From: Sharon F (sharonfDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:17:08 -0500

On 3 May 2004 16:09:38 -0700, P. Simpson wrote:

> 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

Use a PS/2 keyboard or enable "legacy USB" for the keyboard in your BIOS
settings. 

-- 
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User

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