something cool I learned about bios

[Michael Havens]

I've found that a way to get it to recognize the keyboard is to moisten the 
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On Monday 21 January 2008 10:01 am, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Matt Graham wrote:
> > From: Dennis Kibbe <dennisk at linuxquestions.net>
> >
> >> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 06:45 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> >>> if you press f11 & f12 at startup it will let you temporarily choose
> >>> which
> >>>
> >>> device you want to startup with.
> >>
> >> The three whays I know of bringing up a boot menu are:
> >>
> >> F12 (Dell)
> >> F2 (Compaq)
> >> ESC (Compaq, I think)
> >>
> >> If you watch the boot process there may be a message telling you the
> >> correct key to press to get to the menu.
> >
> > The thing that should always work is to hold down any key while the
> > machine is POSTing.  Then is should display "Keyboard stuck key failure,
> > press $FOO to enter Setup, $BAR to continue."  (This assumes the machine
> > has a keyboard and a monitor attached, of course.)
>
> This only works if you have your BIOS set to stop on keyboard errors.
> That's always the first thing I turn off.  I can't tell you how many
> times I've gotten this error:
>
> "Keyboard not found.  Press any key to continue."
>
> Better to just turn off all keyboard errors than to deal with that ;-)
>
> Kurt