legacy support

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megaman322000
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Hey friends,
This is my first time visiting Wim's. Thank you for being here. :)
I need to know if there is such a thing as a windows based program or utility that can read my bios settings to determine if I have Legacy Support enabled.
Whenever I reboot my pc, the starting screen says to press F2 to enter CMOS. My usb keyboard does not respond until after windows xp loads. I do not have a PS/2 keyboard or adapter so that I can access my bios screen at startup. I know usb to PS/2 adapters are fairly cheap, but right now I just want to try to find some kind of software that allows me to check that one setting.
Thank you all for your time and patience.
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edwin
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borrow a PS/2 keyboard and set the bios correctly. this is one of the things you can't set from within windows.

Press F2 to continue sounds like the board has a bad CMOS battery BTW.
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megaman322000
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Thanks Edwin. I went ahead and bought myself a usb to ps/2 adapter and entered cmos. The legacy support was disabled so I enabled it and then restarted my pc. At the first screen where it says hit F2 to enter cmos, I pressed F2 and it still would not access it. Either my settings change didnt save or the cmos battery is bad as you suggested. Maybe I didnt save properly or something. I will try it again after I get home from work in the morning at 3:30am.
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megaman322000 wrote:I will try it again after I get home from work in the morning at 3:30am.
Hey, don't expect us to be online! :wink:
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cp
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the bios expects a ps/2 keyboard even if there's legacy usb support..even on an AsRock K7VTA4+ an usb keyboard doesn't work before the OS loads appropriate drivers :(
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OptiPlex GX260/GX270 does work with USB keyboards in the bios. Just make sure there's no USB hub or KVM switch between the keyboard and the system.
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cp
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yes, there are pcs that are completely legacy free..some dell computers are (like those at my new work :))
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