Winxp pro Boot Floppy Keyboard problem

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>-----Original Message-----
>I am preparing to upgrade the bios of my Albatron 865PE
Pro2 running
>Winxp pro. The computer is running perfectly in every
respect except
>for one game (RON) that continually freezes. I have
exhausted every
>avenue and the bios upgrade is considered because its
there.
>I let XP create a boot floppy and dragged awdflash.exe
and the flash
>upgrade file to the floppy as Albatron advise.
>When I reboot the computer it runs as predicted except at
the A:\
>prompt the cursor is flashing, but the keyboard is dead.
I have tried
>other keyboards and all fail.
>I am confused as the boot floppy appears to have many
keyboard files
>on it, but something gets lost in the floppy boot
sequence.
>I noticed that a normal bootup has an opportunity to Alt
F2 to
>activate an (onboard?)awdflash utility V8.24L, but using
that I get a
>message Source file not found, press F1 to continue....F1
dosnt work
>as again keyboard is dead.
>I have upgraded the keyboard software using the viewsonic
slimline
>setup, but that made no difference so I rolled back to
the original
>microsoft driver which as said works sweet for everything
except the
>boot floppy.
>Any advice appreciated.
>
>regards
>
>Peter Simpson
>simpson@xtra.co.nz
>.
>

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To do a BIOS upgrade put the disc in the floppy drive and then power on. Leave
it do its thing. It takes awhile.
"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
news:uCnHANfMEHA.2824@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> On 3 May 2004 16:09:38 -0700, P. Simpson wrote:
>
> > I am preparing to upgrade the bios of my Albatron 865PE Pro2 running
> > Winxp pro. The computer is running perfectly in every respect except
> > for one game (RON) that continually freezes. I have exhausted every
> > avenue and the bios upgrade is considered because its there.
> > I let XP create a boot floppy and dragged awdflash.exe and the flash
> > upgrade file to the floppy as Albatron advise.
> > When I reboot the computer it runs as predicted except at the A:\
> > prompt the cursor is flashing, but the keyboard is dead. I have tried
> > other keyboards and all fail.
> > I am confused as the boot floppy appears to have many keyboard files
> > on it, but something gets lost in the floppy boot sequence.
> > I noticed that a normal bootup has an opportunity to Alt F2 to
> > activate an (onboard?)awdflash utility V8.24L, but using that I get a
> > message Source file not found, press F1 to continue....F1 dosnt work
> > as again keyboard is dead.
> > I have upgraded the keyboard software using the viewsonic slimline
> > setup, but that made no difference so I rolled back to the original
> > microsoft driver which as said works sweet for everything except the
> > boot floppy.
> > Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Peter Simpson
> > simpson@xtra.co.nz
>
> Use a PS/2 keyboard or enable "legacy USB" for the keyboard in your BIOS
> settings.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User

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On 4 May 2004 20:29:18 -0700, P. Simpson wrote:

> Sharon a special thanks as your advice worked. The cause I now
> discover was largely my fault as I was messing with various USB
> keyboards and I now discover that on borrowing an older HP round plug
> (ps2)keyboard, in some of my original trials I was putting The USB
> keyboard and a PS2 adaptor into the mouse port!! Yes.. I now know they
> are colour coded, but serves me right for crawling around under the
> desk with no torch and it didn't help that the keyboard embossed
> symbol is right up there also. I guess thats why I'm in the newuser
> forum. Anyway PS2 keyboard was found by WinXP straight away and I
> immediately tried the original boot disk and it worked perfectly.
> Thanks also to the other advice I was expecting a long wait, but was
> pleasantly surprised how fast it actually went...once I got the
> correct bin file. My initial download from Albatron was the wrong
> update and awdflash came up and warned me "The program files part
> number does not match with your system" another calamity
> prevented...This time I read the manufacturers site more carefully and
> got the right file easily. Computer updated and appears to be running
> as sweet as usual.
> Now if anyone can solve the RON game freeze that started all this
> drama (havn't had a chance to test it yet with the bios upgrade....)
> Thanks again
>
> Peter

You're very welcome, Peter. I don't know what the RON game is so can't
offer any help there. There is a windowsxp.games newsgroup. May want to
check there and/or any user forums provided on the internet that are
specific to that game.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User