On 20 Aug 2001, at 20:23, ETLehner wrote:

> Are you just saying that the USB keyboard will only work once Windows is
> fully loaded?  If that's the case, that's normal, nothing's broken!

  There was about a two-year period, when USB was first being
introduced, when this was true.  Current motherboards build support
for USB keyboards, and possibly also mice, into the BIOS.

  Only motherboards made/designed during those first two years -- and
motherboards like the poster's, that were never designed for USB! --
should have this problem.

David Gillett

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