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tdotcbc84

Oct 22nd, 2007, 06:58 PM

Ok here is the story...

my aunt has a Asus P5ND2-Sli Motherboard with a D805 CPU !!

Long story short..... when I brought it over to my house to reformat, and give her a legit copy of Windows, the computer wouldn't load up! Everything turns on and runs, but NOTHING HAPPENS!!! So I was like DAMN IT! Something must have went wrong when I brought it over......

So then I brought it back over to my aunt's place, and everything is working FINE :S

So I soon found out, that the computer NEEDED me to plug in an old keyboard that doesn't use USB, in order for the computer to start running :S

WTF !!!

Right now I'm still reformatting, but I really want to know how in the world can this even be a PROBLEM ?? anyone have EXPERIENCE ?

Cospa

Oct 22nd, 2007, 07:15 PM

Long shot but could be possible the boot sequence was set to USB first and the computer was trying to boot off a keyboard? I know my dad's computer was trying to boot off a wireless adapter plugged into the USB needless to say I got errors.

tdotcbc84

Oct 22nd, 2007, 07:20 PM

hmmm interesting, gotta take a look @ that, but I doubt that is the problem!

but like you said, it's a long shot! but thanks, didn't think of that!

Jon Lai

Oct 22nd, 2007, 07:39 PM

No strange. Old motherboards don't recognize USB devices, only the PS/2 Keyboards. When it can't detect a keyboard, its a boot error, hence it doesn't boot up as it doesn't past POST.

goofball

Oct 22nd, 2007, 07:40 PM

did you have USB emulation on?
I've only seen problems with older IBM's and no PS/2 mice attached. Would give a "disk boot failure" unless a PS/2 mouse was attached or no mouse installed set in BIOS.

tdotcbc84

Oct 22nd, 2007, 08:01 PM

did you have USB emulation on?
I've only seen problems with older IBM's and no PS/2 mice attached. Would give a "disk boot failure" unless a PS/2 mouse was attached or no mouse installed set in BIOS.

didn't see any option like that in BIOs :S

just a quick question, how exactly do you flash the bios ? cuz I thought I knew, but it doesn't seem to work.. I downloaded the newest version (.bin file) onto floppy and restart computer.. but even though I have FLOPPY as first boot priority, nothing happens :S

lil help plz :D

Oversized Rooster

Oct 22nd, 2007, 08:41 PM

didn't see any option like that in BIOs :S

just a quick question, how exactly do you flash the bios ? cuz I thought I knew, but it doesn't seem to work.. I downloaded the newest version (.bin file) onto floppy and restart computer.. but even though I have FLOPPY as first boot priority, nothing happens :S

lil help plz :D

Well you gotta call the BIOS flash utility first. Look in the mobo manual. Usually it's come F-key or a combination of keys that you quickly press during POST. The flash prog will start in a DOS-like environment. It will most likely want the BIN file to have a specific name, too.

Gee

Oct 22nd, 2007, 09:36 PM

Since you have an Asus board, you will need a copy of AFUDOS

Download it from Asus' website, copy it over to the floppy with the Bin file.

Make sure the floppy is bootable.

When it boots up, just enter AFUDOS at the prompt and enter the name of the bin file.

That is it.

BTW: AFUDOS = Asus Flash Utililty DOS, not what you are thinking eh?

tdotcbc84

Oct 22nd, 2007, 10:00 PM

Well I flashed the BIOs to 0701, and the problem is still present :S

Well I guess not too big of a problem since my aunt will forever use that keyboard :S

akbar_k

Oct 22nd, 2007, 11:43 PM

Here I was looking for an actually strange problem. This is run-of-the-mill boring :D

I've seen some crazay things in my day, probably jaded.

tdotcbc84

Oct 23rd, 2007, 12:27 AM

Ok fine.. it wasn't that strange :S

but get this.... I pull out the PS/2 Keyboard and the whole computer shuts off!!!

You ever here about that b4 ???

I still don't know what's wrong with the motherboard :S

board123

Oct 23rd, 2007, 12:47 AM

That's pretty messed up indeed.

gman

Oct 23rd, 2007, 12:57 AM

Just keep using PS2 keyboard.

tdotcbc84

Oct 23rd, 2007, 12:59 AM

Smoked

Oct 23rd, 2007, 01:15 AM

I don't know... seems like a lot of work to take out the motherboard and ship it back to ASUS :S

But what I will be hoping for, is that Asus ships me back something else that can support Core 2 Duo CPUs :D

Another weird thing is... the keyboard stays POWERED ON even when the computer is off :S

It looks the keyboard is like ............. Generating it's own power or SOMETHING :S

my sis got the same combo... her mouse has lights, they dont turn off even if the computer is off... i can +1 to this screwed up mobo... abit better after bios update.

tdotcbc84

Oct 23rd, 2007, 01:40 AM

my sis got the same combo... her mouse has lights, they dont turn off even if the computer is off... i can +1 to this screwed up mobo... abit better after bios update.

Does she have the keyboard problem ? where you have to have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in? and you can't ONLY use USB keyboard ?

brunes

Oct 23rd, 2007, 07:35 AM

tdotcbc84

Oct 23rd, 2007, 10:53 PM

Man OP you must be really new at this if you didn't know older PCs can't recognize USB keyboards. USB used to only be on add-on PCI cards whenit first came out... and even after ti started appearing on mainboards most BIOS could not support it at boot time.

If all you have is a USB keyboard, get a USB -> AT adaptor for a couple of bucks from dealextreme or elsewhere.

I don't think you understand the problem!

The computer won't power up unless a PS/2 connected keyboard is present :S

and have you ever had a computer SHUT DOWN when you plug out the keyboard ??

Obviously I know older motherboards can't fully support USB keyboards at start, but this board isn't even that old, nForce4 Chipset!

Smoked

Oct 24th, 2007, 02:06 AM

Does she have the keyboard problem ? where you have to have the PS/2 keyboard plugged in? and you can't ONLY use USB keyboard ?

she doesnt... it works fine... the mouse is usb though