This THING won't recognize PS2 key boards, and it won't recognize a USB board in bios. I want to reset the bios because one of the original hard drives died and plan to migrate to linux. Any ideas about how to get it to recognize the PS2 key board or even the USB one, so can change my bios?
Help with a Gateway FX530XT
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C12Friedman
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At the age of your system, I'd be inclined to believe the problem may be with the PSU or even simply the CMOS battery. I might suggest replacing the CMOS battery as a first step (it's easy and inexpensive) since it going bad can cause strange behaviors in pre-built machines (including errors associated with other hardware). BTW, replacing the CMOS battery will restore BIOS to defaults
OK, Already did the CMOS batt change. Already did the jumper reset. Ect. The issue is that the BIOs does not recognize ANY key boards at all. And some older systems MUST use a PS2 style keyboard in bios. But this system does not "see" any key boards at all. When a "live disk" is used it does not "see" the PS2 either. It's like it's not even attached.
C12Friedman
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Since those should be supported natively by BIOS it may be that the motherboard has begun to die, you might see if there are any capacitors on the motherboard which appear to be bad (swollen or leaking), they can be replaced by someone adept at soldering - other than that, you might try the front USB ports for the keyboard, see if anything that way or... it might be time to start considering a new system
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