Re: [LUG] strange behaviour with my machine.

["Grant Phillips-Sewell" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the keyboard has a USB card reader built-in then the BIOS may well view that as a storage device that can be booted from, and so try (and fail) to boot from it even if there is no card in the reader.

In a previous job one of my managers kept having the same problem with his laptop - turned out he had his Blackberry plugged in at boot time and the laptop was seeing the Blackberry as a USB drive and was trying to boot from it.

Grant

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From: "JOHN DAVEY" <johndavey303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [LUG] strange behaviour with my machine.
Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 17:47

--- On Mon, 21/1/13, John Bowden <led43john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: John Bowden <led43john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LUG] strange behaviour with my machine.
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, 21 January, 2013, 14:33

On Sunday 20 Jan 2013 12:04:29 JOHN DAVEY wrote:

 

HI, I recently bought a wireless keyboard and mouse combo and it killed my machine. I say killed it bit it would boot uo on the odd ocasion and sometimes cut out for no apparent reason. I booted up with Puppy and as you can see everything is working fine which would lead me to believe me that the problem is harddrive relared. Is this right ?
CHEERS, Jon Davey.

Hi.

Try your old keyboard and see if the problem is still there. the bios looks for a keyboard early on in its post test and may stop the boot if it can't see one and double check that the keyboard doe not have any card reader if it has it might be looking for an o/s to boot in the card reader.

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Yes the old keyboard works and if it's seraching for an o/s how come it can't find them?

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