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Wireless keyboard not starting until after GRUB

  • 28-10-2005 1:51pm
    #1
    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭


    I bought a wireless keyboard and mouse (Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard 1.1 and Microsoft Standard Wireless Optical Mouse) and now when I boot up the keyboard works so I can boot into BIOS etc but stops working just before GRUB loads and I have to wait for it to count down and automatically select Windows and can't scroll up to load Ubuntu.

    The keyboard starts working again when Windows loads but it's getting mighty annoying not being able to open Ubuntu without using my old standard wired keyboard...

    Anyone have any ideas?


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  • #2
    Prior Of Taize
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Prior Of Taize


    i have had a very similar problem with my usb keyboard.

    my problem is that the sata drives hated windows and it used to stall on boot 99% of the time. so having turned it on and off i used to have to wait 30 secs for it to boot to normal mode (which often didnt work)...my record is restarting 8 times to get it to even load windows.

    what i did was i got a ps2 keyboard for a tenner or something off komplett (try argos...its faster) and it does the job. just leave the other one plugged in on top of the pc and you will soon forget its there until you need it. thats the only way i ever got it to work...funny thing was that the microsoft boot options didnt support my usb microsoft keyboard (with fingerprint reader!!111)

    ****ing ms...they suck


  • #3
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Get a USB to PS2 convertor and use that.
    Is there an option for USB Mouse/Keyboard support in the BIOS?

    Prior: You can set a hard disk boot delay in most BIOSs, that might help you.


  • #4
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,321 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    have a new MS USB keyboard here (comfort curve 4000), and have had 0 problems with it, bios/booting wise. You need to enable them in the bios, motherboard is DFI SLI-DR


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