Why do I need a SERIAL keyboard during Windows Installation?
Kansenji
containing the RAID drivers as requested & was told to "press any key" to
continue. I discovered that my USB keyboard (& mouse) would not operate
before windows installation & had to find an old "serial" keyboard just so
that my key press worked (and the RAID drivers installed).
Is there any way of avoiding having to swap keyboards from USB to serial? Is
there a setting in the Amibios that will allow the USB keyboard to work to
install the RAID drivers?
I am about to do a fresh install of Windows 7 and want to be prepared.
peter
Most BIOS nowadays have a setting where you activate Legacy USB support for
the keyboard
check yours
peter
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smlunatick
wrote:
FYI: Keyboards were never "serial." The standard keyboard was using
a PS/2 type of connection. Your PC's BIOS must not be set up
correctly to use the now more common USB keyboards.
Chris
Keyboard" during the installation process.
Hot-text
YES Start with the old "serial" keyboard
#1 Power Up Computer
# 2 if Compaq Push KEY F10 go to Computer setup
Dell is Push KEY Delete
HP is Push KEY Delete
were you Power Up Computer you have 5 sec to PUSH KEY
to get Computer setup
If you see keyboard Error Put KEY it over
if Computer setup do start you PUSH KEYS Ctrl+Delete
when The Computer Restart have 5 sec to PUSH KEY Compaq Push KEY F10 Dell
is Push KEY Delete HP is Push KEY Delete
you have to get in the Computer setup utility to set up USB support to use
your USB keyboard
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Hot-text
Start with the old "serial" keyboard
#1 Power Up Computer
# 2 if Compaq Push KEY F10 go to Computer setup
Dell is Push KEY Delete
HP is Push KEY Delete
were you Power Up Computer you have 5 sec to PUSH KEY
to get Computer setup
If you see keyboard Error Put KEY it over
Tim Meddick
Further to the suggestions made by "Hot-text", I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic
desktop PC and to get the USB keyboard to work in the "text-based" areas of Windows
(i.e: Startup-menu, Recovery Console or Window's "clean" installation) it was
necessary to choose an option in the BIOS under "Advanced" > "Peripherals" named :
"Enable USB legacy support".
Whereas, I don't think that the item you require in the BIOS will be in exactly the
same place on the menus or have exactly the same name as the one I needed to change,
I DO think it will be called something quite similar to : "Enable USB legacy
support"...
Another point I should mention; the USB keyboard IS recognised by the BIOS on my PC
but need to set the "Enable USB legacy support" option to allow the keyboard to
function in the "startup menu" [F8] and other text-based areas of Windows.
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
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Hot-text
Known Issues
Under certain Windows XP environments the 133PQ Keyboard is not enumerated
correctly during installation on the TeamPoS 2000 resulting in some of the
Keyboard functionality (e.g., the MSR) being non-operational under OPOS. To
resolve this issue, the BIOS Setup setting for ACPI should be set to
Enabled - PRIOR TO THE INSTALLATION OF THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM to
permit the correct enumeration of the keyboard device and proper operations.
For an installation where the BIOS Setting for ACPI was set to Disabled
during Windows XP installation, Microsoft has provided a work-around for
this issue - that involves the disabling of TermDD.sys - in the form of a
registry change as follows:
Under the registry key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermDD
Set the "Start" key value to be "4" then reboot the system.
Need More Info <<<
Fujitsu
Contact Technical Support
Remote Technical Assistance
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/telecom/services-support/contact.html
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Tim Meddick
I mentioned my experiences with my fujitsu-siemens PC and USB
keyboard, purely because it was another example where enabling of USB support
feature in the BIOS settings was needed before the keyboard would function correctly
in pre-windows text-based environments (such as the OS choices menu, the [F8]
Startup-menu, the Recovery Console and starting with a MS-DOS boot disk).
I sincerely doubt that the installation of the (OPOS) Support software, you
mentioned, would make any difference to the current setup of my PC.
This is because of the type of pre-windows environments that the keyboard needed the
"USB legacy support" feature in the BIOS enabled in order to function.
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
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