Re: No boot with joy stick attached

writes:

William P N Smith writes:
>>> ahall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I spoke too soon. I had booted it three times in a row with success, and thought
>>> all was well. Then the problem came back. I moved the joystick to the USB hub in
>>> my monitor, and it is working for now. But I do not trust it yet.

William> That might actually help, as the BIOS is unlikely to try to init
William> external hubs, so it'll be unable to see the joystick. Let us know...

> That was my hope. I have not tested it any more, as I have a busy day.

> There is one other USB oddity, I need to have my wireless keyboard plugged into
> a specific USB slot to have the keyboard available during the boot. Otherwise it
> does not show up until XP starts. It was quite annoying before I figured out the
> workaround as I was doing a fair amount of stuff in the bios.


Over a week later, and the system has booted every time.
Why the joy stick blocks the boot, even with all floppy and
USB drives taken out of the boot sequence remains a mystery,
but the hub workaround seems robust.

Thanks,
ah


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