Question on A7A266

[George]

Question 1. A friend of mine gave me a A7A266 after my Abit crapped out.
The board seems to be working fine, but for a reason I don't know or have
the knowledge, the light on the keyboard NUM LOCK and the mouse light, (I
have a MS optical) stay on after the computer shuts down.

Question 2. There is a green LED light on the motherboard, does this light
stay on after shut down, the only way this one would go off is to turn off
the power supply, and then the keyboard and mouse light went off too.

Any help would be appreciated.

thank you,
A.S.

 

[Pigs on the Wing Productions]

Question 1. A friend of mine gave me a A7A266 after my Abit crapped out.
The board seems to be working fine, but for a reason I don't know or have
the knowledge, the light on the keyboard NUM LOCK and the mouse light, (I
have a MS optical) stay on after the computer shuts down.

Question 2. There is a green LED light on the motherboard, does this light
stay on after shut down, the only way this one would go off is to turn off
the power supply, and then the keyboard and mouse light went off too.

Any help would be appreciated.

thank you,
A.S.

1. Check the bios settings for Wake up on Keyboard. It is probably
enabled. This would keep power to the keyboard so the computer can
dectect a keyboard command.

2. The LED on the motherboard should stay lit. This is normal.

Steve

 

[Ed]

Question 1. A friend of mine gave me a A7A266 after my Abit crapped out.
The board seems to be working fine, but for a reason I don't know or have
the knowledge, the light on the keyboard NUM LOCK and the mouse light, (I
have a MS optical) stay on after the computer shuts down.

Question 2. There is a green LED light on the motherboard, does this light
stay on after shut down, the only way this one would go off is to turn off
the power supply, and then the keyboard and mouse light went off too.

Any help would be appreciated.

thank you,
A.S.

1) Look to see if Asus released a newer BIOS that fixes that, if not I
would start by checking the "Power On" by Mouse and Keyboard
jumpers/BIOS settings and USB Legacy options if that board has those
features.

2) That's normal.

Ed

 

[Paul]

Question 1. A friend of mine gave me a A7A266 after my Abit crapped out.
The board seems to be working fine, but for a reason I don't know or have
the knowledge, the light on the keyboard NUM LOCK and the mouse light, (I
have a MS optical) stay on after the computer shuts down.

Question 2. There is a green LED light on the motherboard, does this light
stay on after shut down, the only way this one would go off is to turn off
the power supply, and then the keyboard and mouse light went off too.

Any help would be appreciated.

thank you,
A.S.

Many Asus motherboards have a jumper block that controls how an external
device will be powered. The jumper block will have the option of using
+5 or +5VSB. When powered by +5VSB, a keyboard for example, could be used
to wake the computer, as the keyboard is always powered. If the keyboard
were to run with only +5, then when you shutdown Windows, the keyboard
loses power when the +5 gets turned off. Then, the keyboard cannot be
used to wake up or start the computer, but the LEDs on the keyboard will
also be off as well. The +5VSB only disappears when you use the switch
on the back of an ATX powered computer. So, moving a shorting plug on
the jumper block will solve your problem.

The green LED monitors +5VSB and is there to warn you not to install or
remove hardware when the LED is lit. You should shut off the power on
the back of the computer and wait until the LED is off, before adding
DIMMs or PCI cards etc. A safer policy is to just pull the cord from the
back of the machine, as that guarantees there is no power inside the
case.

HTH,
Paul