Error no keyboard present press F1 to comtinue

[lsheldon]

We are having a certain set of machines with the same motherboard regualry

coming up with the:

Error no keyboard present press F1 to continue

 

If you switch the machines off from the power on the wall wait 5 seconds and switch back on they usally work

 

They are a mixture of PS/2 and USB keyboards

 

I wondered if anybody can help me resolve this issue / mabie a setting on the BIOS etc as it is causing alto of people to report fault's and taking up alot of our time.

[Domino]

What machines are they?

 

I assume you've tried upgrading the BIOS, etc?

[PeterW]

Are there any BIOS updates available for the systems/mainboards?

Have they only just started doing this, are they recent machines or older ones?

[lsheldon]

Motherboards are ASUS K8V-X SE

 

I have tried upgrading still having issues, but the ASUS website is not the best it lists 12 updates, i am presuming that the latest includes all, none of the descriptions seem to match my errors though.

 

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?model=K8V-X%20SE&os=17&SLanguage=en-us

 

Another issue would be deploying the BIOS upgrade across apx 150/200 machines with the / simaler BIOS

 

see my post

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/31172-ris-wds-tools-maintenance-troubleshooting-features.html

 

Thank you

[mac_shinobi]

if you reset the bios to its defaults or manufacturer defaults does that help at all ?

 

The read me file should explain whats included in the update - generally the latest one tends to have all of them afaik ( could be wrong )

[lsheldon]

Reset the BIOS to no avail these errors still randomly apear.

[RabbieBurns]

Might take a while, but you could set the "Halt on" setting to "No errors" i think its called. By default, its set to Halt on keyboard error in most bios

[lsheldon]

Thats a good idea but the only problem i have then is when we F12 for ris this would not work on the errored computers.

[PeterW]

You could try disabling this option in the BIOS

Wait For 'F1' If Error

Are they just outside of warranty?

 

EDIT:

F12 for ris this would not work on the errored computers.

Ahh thats not good then

Edited February 23, 2009 by PeterW

[lsheldon]

They are outside of warranty, they are the worst motherboards i have had

[reyadr]

Might take a while, but you could set the "Halt on" setting to "No errors" i think its called. By default, its set to Halt on keyboard error in most bios

 

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