[techtalk] weird laptop problem

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:58:26 -0500, "Wendt,Andrew" <awendt at neo.rr.com> said:

>Many BIOSes have settings to turn on USB keyboard support for
>DOS. Even though DOS doesn't support USB, the BIOS makes it look like
>a `legacy' keyboard.

Nothing in the BIOS about USB.  I checked that first-thing. :)

>Otherwise you would have to find an old keyboard and hook it up in
>order to do things like tell Windows to boot into safe mode, or
>format and reinstall, etc.

Hm, I never thought about using an external keyboard.  Most laptops
support that....

Kelly

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