when you get the OS screen where you need to enter stuff, quickly unplug and replug the USB keyboard. I have a RHEL5 system that looses the keyboard half the time due to a kernel buglet in the usb activation process at bootup. That notification from the hardware seems to tell the kernel "HEY! I HAVE A KEYBOARD HERE!" and it works fine from that point on.<br>
<br>Same machine with F1[34] does not do that.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:01 AM, 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;">I'm now leaning towards hardware being the culprit with my boot with USB<br>
keyboard. I thought I had finally resolved it with setting USB to Legacy<br>
and disabling ACPI 2.0 Support in the BIOS, as it booted fine for a few<br>
days. I did one day have to reboot to get it to boot. Today it took me a<br>
half hour to get it to boot. I had even tried an old PS/2 keyboard 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 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 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 OS (to<br>
allow time to enter ASUS Express i guess) which I hit ESC to skip 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 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 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 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 stay<br>
with ASUS or change to another Mfg. MoBo.<br>
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