you need a fan cover like the big semi trucks use in the cold weather :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 12/01/2010 11:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> when you get the OS screen where you need to enter stuff, quickly<br>
> unplug and replug the USB keyboard. I have a RHEL5 system that looses<br>
> the keyboard half the time due to a kernel buglet in the usb<br>
> activation process at bootup. That notification from the hardware<br>
> seems to tell the kernel "HEY! I HAVE A KEYBOARD HERE!" and it works<br>
> fine from that point on.<br>
><br>
> Same machine with F1[34] does not do that.<br>
><br>
</div>I've tried that. Normally what I do is hit the ESC key just before the<br>
graphical passphrase entry screen shows up so I'm in character mode for<br>
the boot up. I've been doing it that way for a long time. If the graphic<br>
screen shows up it usually means no keyboard, i have tried unplugging<br>
and replugging it in with no change. This morning I noticed that the<br>
temp readings were down into the 60's. It seemed that when the MoBo temp<br>
reading got to the high 70's it booted. Also I had tried my old PS/2<br>
keyboard and got the same results. In the past the PS/2 worked, allowing<br>
me to reboot and switch back. Might be a coincidence, but my previous<br>
board a Gigabyte booted fine consistently with the same keyboard as now<br>
with the ASUS MoBo.<br>
<div class="im">> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Scott Castaline <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I'm now leaning towards hardware being the culprit with my boot<br>
> with USB<br>
> keyboard. I thought I had finally resolved it with setting USB to<br>
> Legacy<br>
> and disabling ACPI 2.0 Support in the BIOS, as it booted fine for<br>
> a few<br>
> days. I did one day have to reboot to get it to boot. Today it<br>
> took me a<br>
> half hour to get it to boot. I had even tried an old PS/2 keyboard<br>
> which<br>
> gave me the same results. I then switched back to my USB and went into<br>
> the BIOS going through everything to see if something had changed<br>
> as was<br>
> the case one time before. When I exited with a save the system powered<br>
> down and then about 10 seconds later powered back up itself and<br>
> booted fine.<br>
><br>
> As a reminder my problem was that the BIOS reports seeing an USB<br>
> keyboard and USB mouse. The BIOS then goes to a countdown to boot<br>
> OS (to<br>
> allow time to enter ASUS Express i guess) which I hit ESC to skip<br>
> which<br>
> does work then I had changed the grub.conf to not hide the menu and 15<br>
> sec delay which that sees the Enter response from the keyboard and<br>
> goes<br>
> on. It's when it asks for my passphrase to unlock my devices that I<br>
> loose the keyboard. I usually hit the ESC key when I see the screen<br>
> backlight shut off and my lighted keyboard turns off and just when it<br>
> lights up again, this will switch the boot screen from graphic to<br>
> text.<br>
> If it comes up to the GUI passphrase box my keyboard is dead. I also<br>
> can't get it to powerdown at shutdown.<br>
><br>
> So basically I'm just putting my feelers out for other opinions<br>
> before I<br>
> start with exchanging the MoBo or RMA'ing it to ASUS. Also if<br>
> MicroCenter will exchange it, what's your opinion whether I should<br>
> stay<br>
> with ASUS or change to another Mfg. MoBo.<br>
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