Hello all,

My system works fine when there is a USB keyboard attached at boot.
If I boot without the keyboard attached, the boot time increases
dramatically, sometimes to the point where I give up and kill power.
How can I have my keyboard-less system boot as fast and reliably as
when there is a keyboard attached?

I don't think it is a BIOS issue. I put in a duplicate OS entry in
the boot.ini, so the OS choices menu shows up. If I watch the boot
process with an attached monitor, without a keyboard, I see the OS
choices menu count down to zero and then just sit there for minutes
(or longer). If there is a keyboard attached, it counts down to zero
and then immediatly loads XPe. Behavior is similar if there is only
one entry in boot.ini.

I'm not using EWF. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eli

Hi Eli,

You don't think it's BIOS issue. However, some BIOS setting will let boot up
failed if there's no keyboard attached.

Regards,
Ethan

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> Hello all,
>
> My system works fine when there is a USB keyboard attached at boot.
> If I boot without the keyboard attached, the boot time increases
> dramatically, sometimes to the point where I give up and kill power.
> How can I have my keyboard-less system boot as fast and reliably as
> when there is a keyboard attached?
>
> I don't think it is a BIOS issue. I put in a duplicate OS entry in
> the boot.ini, so the OS choices menu shows up. If I watch the boot
> process with an attached monitor, without a keyboard, I see the OS
> choices menu count down to zero and then just sit there for minutes
> (or longer). If there is a keyboard attached, it counts down to zero
> and then immediatly loads XPe. Behavior is similar if there is only
> one entry in boot.ini.
>
> I'm not using EWF. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eli
>