Re: CAS attack

On 6/29/22 23:11, VanguardLH wrote:
> bad sector wrote:
> 
>> Speakin of keyboards I treated my desktop to a gaming 
>> DURGOD which is superb EXCEPT for one thing, it's nearly
>> impossibpe to hit BIOS setup by holding down the damm
>> 'Del' key (mobo is Asus Crosshair-IV). 
> 
> Had to lookup "DURGOD".  Okay, a brand/model of keyboard.
> 
> Did you disable Fast Startup in Windows?  That makes it very difficult
> to hit the hotkey after POST to get into the BIOS.
> 
> Is the keyboard connected to a USB port (uses polling), or to a PS/2
> port (interrupt driven)?  Gamers still like PS/2 keyboards for a couple
> reasons.  One, polling on USB can result in missing a poll, so the
> keypress get delayed.  Two, PS/2 keyboards support a larger N-rollover
> (more keys can be concurrently pressed AND recognized).

Haven't used windows since my tripple-booting days when IBM's boot-mangler would start Warp, Windows, or Linux for me. Now I'm into quinto-booting, five OS'es, ALL of them Linux :-)

The DURGOD has 'a weight' so it don't get knocked around every time a fly farts next to it. The mechanical keys remind me of the IBM clackers which could have been surpassed but never were. This thing is not bad, certainly is not too big, about half the footprint of a clacker. Yes, it's connected to a USB port, I was going to see if they made PS/2 but apparently even PS/2 circuits nowadays are just virtual as they get piped into the mobo's USB route in any event. My Asus Crosshair-V-Formula does have real PS/2 ports but it may have been among the last ones to sport them. I don't know, I'm no guru, it's what I heard not too long ago from one of the regulars here I believe.

My only problem with it is this Del-for-BIOS inability (1 out of 20 on everage makes it), I wish someone could tell me what's going on here (I'm keeping a $15 generic keyboard on stby just for BIOS setups).