Re: Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOS mode?
John McGaw <[email protected]>
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On 12/12/2020 8:47 PM, Arlen Holder wrote: snip... > Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOS mode? > o <https://i.postimg.cc/GpkgdmxT/cmos01.jpg> Won't go into BIOS > > How did you resolve that issue? > Yes. More than once. Usually it is a matter of the BIOS mode being dependent upon a particular keyboard connection. In old MBs it was not uncommon for them to watch for signals from PS2 keyboards only. Any USB keyboards would be ignored until after the boot and some driver or other was loaded. I have one more modern MB, a "Genuine Intel" of some sort or other which ignores input from a wireless keyboard/pad until after boot even though the KB's adapter is plugged into a USB port. If I plug in a "real" USB keyboard of any description it will work during boot. Luckily the MB in question is willing to overlook the missing keyboard and boot anyway. Oh, and yes, I've had a couple of mystery MBs were I had to play guessing games about which key and precisely when to press it to achieve BIOS. -- Bodger's Dictum: Artifical intelligence can never overcome natural stupidity.