Re: OT - Odd PC problem (burning DVDs and rebooting)


greenaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 3 Nov 2005 16:59:33 -0800, "Dom Robinson" <google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> sprachen:
>
> >drives, it won't let me press F1 or delete to get into setup so I could
> >go into Safe Mode, for example, or 'reboot to last working
> >configuration'.
>
> That's F8. By the time F8 is recognised, you're partly into Windows,
> so the USB keyboard drivers might have loaded, but I thought modern
> BIOSes had their own little drivers on board for USB keyboards.

I know it's normally F8 but mine says "F1 or Delete" for some reason.

> I wouldn't dare use something so flaky as USB for a keyboard. I know
> my PC. I stick with a PS/2 one, running on the ancient interrupts that
> go back to the original IBM PC.

I changed to this because I was using an extender cable for it and it
kept wrapping round the bottom of the La-z-boy on a daily basis,
pulling the cable out inbetween and probably doing no good at all to
the connection at the motherboard.

> You could do what Chris said. You can buy perfectly good PS/2
> keyboards for 4 or 5 quid for use on booting. They, AFAIK, will even
> run alongside a USB one in Windows, keep it stuck near the PC while
> you're tapping away wirelessly 10 metres away, or in the next room or
> whatever.

Oh, I could dream of 10 metres! :)

Anything more than 4ft from the IR device and it starts missing stuff.

I've got a PS/2 keyboard spare so will plug that in if I really can't
resolve the problem when I get into windows if it happens again (just
wish I knew what the hell was making programs force the CPU to run to
99% then crash, on booting up)

I could've left it plugged in and tucked away but inbetween connecting
the USB wireless keyboard and unplugged the PS/2, something dropped on
the latter and then I thought something weird was happening, making the
space bar go into overdrive...

Why can't someone just make a PC that works 100% all fucking day EVERY
day?! :(

Dom

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