On 27 May 2007 19:53:33 -0700, "jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk"
<jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


>just remembered, some more issues..
>if the battery were to run out or you change batteries (the latter
>being the thing to do)
>then i'm quite sure your BIOS values will reset. many Important
>values will autodetect, and the default settings are probably fine.
>However, I can recall a case where it wasn't fine!
>I recall a BIOS where the default setting was to disable the parallel
>port (the printer was connected to that!) so it didn't print, and the
>parallel port didn't show in device manager.
>It is a fundamental check .. very unusual, but sometimes perhaps even
>USB could be disabled there. I can't think somebody would do it
>intentionally , and it's unlikely to be accidental. That only leaves
>the option of barmy default setting.
>
>It may be feasible that legacy usb may be disabled by default. It's a
>useful setting to enable, it is to do with using usb devices e.g. usb
>keyboard, from DOS.. and maybe even pre windows.xp.
>


This reminds me of a similar situation I was once in where
the bios defaulted to PS2 keyboard with USB keyboard
disabled but the board didn't have PS2 ports on it at all...
was a little miniATX specialty board I picked up for
practically nothig - and then realized why so cheap.
Fortunately I was able to edit the bios on another system to
enable USB keyboard support, then automate flashing it with
a floppy.