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| Thread ID: 36312 | 2003-08-06 00:39:00 | Microsoft Office Keyboard & Safe Mode | Hawk (4365) | Press F1 |
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| 165699 | 2003-08-06 00:39:00 | I recently got an office USB keyboard , however when you want to use safe mode (by pressing f8 duing startup) how do you do this with this keyboard? as you need to F Lock key on to be able to press the F keys, and that doesnt let you until well past the startup.. any other way around this?? Thanks |
Hawk (4365) | ||
| 165700 | 2003-08-06 00:53:00 | If you hold down the left Shift key before Windows starts to load, it should boot into Safe Mode as well. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 165701 | 2005-06-24 05:25:00 | I also have the same keyboard but holding down the "shift" key does not work for me. Has anyone any other suggestions? | Leendert (1322) | ||
| 165702 | 2005-06-24 05:56:00 | The problem is that the BIOS routines for talking to the keyboard were written long before USB existed. So there can be problems in the early stages of the boot process. Modern BIOSs should have improved the situation. Check that the "Legacy Support" option in the BIOS is enabled. Of course, you might have to put back the old PS/2 keyboard temporarily to get into the BIOS setup routine. :D |
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