no, there is no way to do this. the bios controls this behavior.
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> I have a system that run on windows xp, it has a keyboard pad that
> connected to the keyboard encoder that attached to the motherboard.
> The problem is the keyboard pad won't work unless there is a external
> keyboard connected. I suspect that XP does not load the keyboard
> driver(i8042prt.sys and kbdclass.sys) if XP doesnt detect a keyboard? Am
> I correct? If that is the case, so it seems that XP doesn't recognize
> the keyboard pad as the standart 101 keyboard.
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> Is there a way to tell XP to always load the keyboard driver even there
> is no keyboard? Or, is there a way to make the keyboard pad is being
> recognize as a normal keyboard?
>
> for extra information: The keyboard pad I mention, is only consist of
> F1-F10, numpad,and the direction arrow key).
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