Re: Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOS mode?
Mark Lloyd <[email protected]>
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On 12/26/20 8:58 AM, John McGaw wrote: [snip] > 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. Usually, I would prefer USB. However, I used to have some older systems without USP support in BIOS, and I would use a PS/2 keyboard for those. IIRC, that was true with the PII-class Celeron with "Y2K compliant" motherboard. [snip] > 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. Of those I've had, ESC DEL F1 or F2 worked on most so I try all those keys one after another. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "If fascism ever comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Upton Sinclair, Huey P. Long, and others.