USB2 Keyboard Not Recognized?

[(PeteCresswell)]

I put a USB2 keyboard on my P4P800-E running Win2000 Pro several weeks ago with
no problems at all.

"Up"-graded to XP last nite and now, among several other things, I notice:

1) The bios lady is telling me "No keyboard recognized", although XP seems to
have no problem with it.

2) My DOS-based imaging program ("Image") won't work until I plug in a regular
keyboard.


Sounds like some kind of BIOS setting issue to me - except why should anything
have changed at that level?

Looked thru the parms, found USB Mouse, but nothing about keyboard.

Anybody been here?

Time to go back to Win2000 Pro?

 

[Venom]

No problem really. USB does not have any drivers untill the OS is running.
Use a PS2 keyboard and mouse untill you get Windows installed.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

In BIOS, check to see if there is a setting like "USB Legacy" and if so,
enable it..


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[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Thomas Wendell:

In BIOS, check to see if there is a setting like "USB Legacy" and if so,
enable it..

Close.

Turns out that my mainboard-connected-USB-avoidence strategy was the culprit.

I had taped over the backpanel USB ports, replacing them with a couple of PCI
USB cards and plugged the keyboard into one of them.

Needless-to-say, the motherboard's bios didn't recognize it.

So now I have (Bios-wise):

USB Function = Enabled
USB = Disabled
Legacy USB Support = Disabled

.... and the keyboard plugged into one of the mb-direct USB ports on the back
panel..... and all is well.