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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:34:53 PDT7
From:	eyeleica@lvcm.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: USB kbd (was warp 4 install diskettes)

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In <3EDA6E4D.3188.6D4A588F@localhost>, on 06/01/2003
at 09:24 PM, "Dave Watson" said:

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>On 1 Jun 2003 at 21:12, eyeleica@lvcm.com wrote:
>> ... a couple of old computers: a pentium 166 with 64 mgs of ram and a
>> pentium 133 with the same amount of ram. ... I've acquired another old
>> computer, an AMD K-6, but the problem with this is the ps/2 connection on
>> the motherboard. At boot I get stoppage with error that the keyboard is
>> faulty or missing. I am switching to a usb keyboard when it arrives

>I hope it works, Butch. But you should probably check your bios to make
>sure it recognizes USB keyboards. I had a board about that vintage, a
>200 or 233, I think, with a bad PS2 keyboard connection, and a USB port,
>but it wouldn't recognize a USB keyboard on bootup, either.

Thanks for the advice. I'd better give the bios a check on recognizing a
usb keyboard. You would think the motherboard manufacturer and the bios
manufacturer would be in-line with each other, but I've found that with
older computers, there are many irregularities. For instance, with one of
the older computers, the boot sequence in the bios includes booting from
cd. Upon communicating with the bios maker, the particular bios model
will not boot from cd. However, for $69 an update will fix that. Now the
update is down to $19, but that is a different story.

thanks

butch
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