** Strangest PC Problem EVER! Come and hear about THIS! **

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 ?

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.

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!

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.

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.

Originally Posted by goofball

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

Originally Posted by tdotcbc84

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

That's pretty messed up indeed.

Just keep using PS2 keyboard.

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


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

Originally Posted by tdotcbc84

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


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.