[Rant] That was annoying...

I decided to do a through check disk on my main hard drive and when it rebooted, I turned my external drive on like usual once it got past the BIOS screen. At which point the computer decided to check the disk label of something and proceeded to freeze up like it normally does if I reboot without turning the external off first...so I had to hard boot it by holding down the power...and then it decided to run a thorough check disk AGAIN...and I couldn't stop it because this G15 keyboard refuses to load during BIOS like a PS2 keyboard would. So I had to sit through it twice. ARGH.

In your bios there may be an option screen for USB keyboards. You have the choice of BIOS support for legacy OS.

Yeah, I was told as much. The issue being that my keyboard doesn't initialize until after the opportunity to get into BIOS has past has kept me from changing that setting. I will probably have to steal my wife's PS/2 keyboard for a bit to get into BIOS to correct it.

I believe HP disabled it because the system CAME with a PS/2 keyboard in the first place, so they believed it wasn't necessary or something. My Logitech G15 is a USB keyboard, though...so not only does it slow down the loading of windows, but it doesn't work when you first boot the system up.

G15 works fine here...

I didn't say it didn't work, I said the drivers for it don't load until after the HP BIOs screen has past. In fact, the lights and the LCD screen don't work until after that has past.

So you say eh? LOL I just re-installed my G15 and the one time I tried to get to the BIOS since then I just figured I didn't hit ESC fast enough. You have me curious so I'm going to try again as soon as I hit enter on this post. That dog won't hunt since I still need to fiddle with my BIOS some more. This G15 is getting closer and closer to joining my XFi on a return trip to the computer parts store to be transmogrified into cash money back in my hand.

Whew. Scare alert downgraded. My DEL key (I know I typed ESC above) popped me right into BIOS slicker than owl snot. My keyboard didn't light up or initialize either, but now that I think about it, after running the Logitech installation disk AND the upgraded soft ware from the logitech site, it still says "generic USB Keyboard," not "Logitech blah blah," and is running the same drivers as before. I don't think Logitech made any drivers for this puppy. I think all the gaming stuff and whatnot is a shell within Windows and is not effected by BIOS one iota. Either that or I installed my G15 wrong so that it works in game and also in BIOS. I know that i did uninstall my keyboard drivers and then ran the logitech disk and then the updates................

I think the bios supports generic only keyboards. It is not like software that can take up alot of space on your harddrive. A bios is limited to the capacity of the chip it is on. A bios is designed to post the system and be a link between the OS an hardware.

No problem accessing cmos, using 'F8' function or updating mb bios with ez flash here with my G15 kb. Works fine in all aspects of 'dos'.

I guess I wasn't specific, in the windows system hardware device manager thingie, my g15 is still listed as as an "HID Keyboard device" rather than a Logitech G15 and is still using the drivers from the Vista program rather than anything from Logitech. Again I don't know if that is because I did the instal wrong or because Logitech does not provide drivers, just software for the Keyboard profiler and game panel manager. The only difference I saw after the updates was an increase in games the keyboard recognised.

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