Hi Philo and GIlliver,
The customer called me this morning and said
a reboot fixed everything. Go figure !
Philo's way is obviously the best! However, trying to catch things
during boot can be made easier by use of the Pause key; in fact it's
about the only time I've ever found a use for it.
Me too. That is why I had to ask. I look all over
?My Computer, Properties" and did not find it.
Why I asked was that the customer would have been
impossible to couch through the process.
(I'm also not sure if such things will work with a USB keyboard: that
probably depends on the mobo/BIOS. Certainly on older ones it might need
a PS/2 keyboard.)
So far I have found that USB keyboards will work if
you catch Windows with the f8 key quick enough before
Windows switches from BIOS to its own drivers.
If you are using a USB3 port, which works fine in BIOS,
you are screwed as Windows can only read a USB3
port after it load a separate USB3 driver. (Found that
one out the hard way: why can I configure BIOS
but Windows installer can't see my keyboard or
mouse?)
-T