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Title: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: ppalughi3 on October 13, 2006, 09:40:46 PM

Hi,

I'll be as informative and as brief as possible.
System: nVidia NF4UL-A9 biostar mb, AMD Venice 3500, kingston  hyper-x 1GB,Seagate barracuda 7200.10 320 GB, 500w Nexus PSU, Microsoft natural ergonomic kb 4000 windowsw XPprofessional service pak2.

Up and down keys wont work at boot so I cant choose different OS. I am in set up mode and cant get out. I press F3 and comp restart but Icant use dir. keys to highlight winXP or linux.

Pls help?

Do you need more info?

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 13, 2006, 10:38:45 PM

Use a PS2 keyboard or a USB-->PS2 adaptor.

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: ppalughi3 on October 13, 2006, 10:56:42 PM

Tried PS2- did not work

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 13, 2006, 10:59:03 PM

Did you plug the PS2 keyboard into the correct PS2 port, there are 2, the right one & the wrong one.

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: ppalughi3 on October 13, 2006, 11:36:20 PM

Yes. I know there are two, one for the mouse and one for keyboard. aquq is mouse grey is keyboard

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 13, 2006, 11:51:15 PM

I'm not sure about aquq & grey, the 2 computers I'm looking at here are both
green for mouse & purple for keyboard.
I guess it makes no difference if you're sure which is which.

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: ppalughi3 on October 14, 2006, 12:12:24 AM

that's all you got

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 14, 2006, 12:53:44 AM

Have you enabled the usb mouse & keyboard support in bios, the default is 'disabled'.

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 14, 2006, 12:57:23 AM

I'm reading your motherboard manual now...
Grey & aquq is incorrect, try green & purple.
Do you have the manual? Have you read it?

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: GX1_Man on October 14, 2006, 01:51:29 PM

What is going on this week?  ::)

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Fed on October 14, 2006, 02:07:30 PM

That's all you got?
 >:(

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: Raptor on October 14, 2006, 02:11:10 PM

Haha.

Run the kill!

Title: Re: directional keys wont work at boot
Post by: patio on October 14, 2006, 09:34:48 PM

Turn the light off...