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« on: April 07, 2009, 09:10:29 AM »
Hello everyone,

Every time my comp. boots up i have to press F1 to continue before the OS loads up.  It's been like that since i built it, and it's getting really annoying since I have a wireless keyboard that isn't recognized until the OS loads up.  Lately even my regular USB keyboard isn't able to press F1 to boot up.  I'm going to try and hook it up with a PS2 adapter, but I'd really like to just skip the whole F1 process if I can.
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 09:12:04 AM »
What prompt is it asking you to press F1 for?
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 09:20:45 AM »
all i know is it says press f1 to continue after it checks the hard drives and such before it will load up the OS, it tells me it failed to load the floppy drive, then press f1 to continue.  i don't even have a floppy drive :haha:
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 09:25:21 AM »
If you go into the BIOS, somewhere you should be able to disable the floppy drive.  The computer is prolly searching for a floppy drive and giving you an error because it can't find one..
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 09:26:19 AM »
I had an old compaq that done the same
it turned out to be the keyboard PS2 socket had a faulty connector

 
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »
Yes, as another poster said, you need to go into the BIOS and disable the floppy drive.

You may be more comfortable getting the local teen geek to do this for you.

EDIT: You may need to use an usb to ps2 adapter for your keyboard to do this.
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2009, 10:14:12 AM »
i tried disabling that a long time ago but it didnt fix the problem.  i'll try again once i find an adapter.

i'm the local post teen geek Embarassed

does anyone know of a way to enable a wireless USB keyboard for the bios?  i suppose ill try plugging the wireless connector in via the ps2 adapter and see if it works.

thanks!
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2009, 04:33:41 PM »
depending on the keyboard, it should work.. i've had some wireless keyboards that work on boot and others that require specific drivers..
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2009, 06:22:49 AM »
Look in the BIOS for Boot Up Floppy Seek and disable that as well as the floppy in the boot sequence.
That should solve the hit F! to continue annoyance on bootup.

If that doesn't work, as a last resort, try going into standard features in BIOS and setting halt on to all but diskette and keyboard.
That should also allow your keyboard to work through the usb port.

Note: If you need to get back into BIOS after doing this you will prolly need to reconnect the keyboard to the ps2 port to do it.
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2009, 03:22:54 PM »
or in the bios you could set it to not halt on anything...although that may not be the best way to do it
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2009, 06:31:57 PM »
i found the floppy option and disabled it.  it seemed to boot up after that without a hitch.  thanks guys!
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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2009, 06:35:33 PM »
glad you got it working.    grin

i remember having a computer (with the keyboard plugged in) say that there was no keyboard present and i had to hit F1 to continue...  2funny
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2009, 06:37:43 PM »
it took me a while to find a usb> ps2 adapter.  i ended up having to buy a mouse that came with one then return it.
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2009, 06:38:49 PM »
 grin never thought of that. i guess it works huh.

yeah i have dvi to vga adapters and all that kinda stuff but not one usb to ps2.....
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