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I read some of the related posts on here but couldn't really find the solution.

I have a PS/2 port but my PS/2 keyboard doesn't work on it anymore. Maybe it's broken or something. So, I got a new keyboard, a USB Keyboard and it worked just fine. I could enter BIOS with no problem and even formatted and re-installed windows on my computer so many times.

But, a few days ago, I tried accessing my BIOS setup and it wouldn't let my keyboard work. I even checked it by trying to boot with a CD, but it wouldn't accept my keyboard press even though all the lights on the keyboard were on.

I tried resetting the BIOS by switching off and on the switch at the back of my CPU, but it doesn't work. I keep hearing those clicks when I boot my PC. I read somewhere about Click BIOS but couldn't find one compatible with Intel.

Giacomo1968
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Ashfaaq
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In the 2000s I had a computer with a Ps2 socket and USB socket and in those years, they weren't really built for the USB keyboards to reliably work that early in the boot process to use it in the BIOS.

So maybe your computer was maybe super old.. eg you in 2015 with a computer that was maybe 12 years old...

This computer issue you had in 2015 was more of an early 2000s problem, and wouldn't be an issue now in 2023+.

Once they phased out Ps2 from common computers that was when the USB had been made more reliable for accessing the BIOS from.

And I use the term BIOS because it was in more recent years that we got told no it's not a BIOS it's a UEFI. And BIOS is now a mode that the UEFI can be put in, and the mode is called legacy.

If you wre in 2015 with that issue then i'd say you should either fiddle with the ps2, e.g. try a new ps2 keyboard. Or get a new computer. No doubt by now you have gotten a new computer particularly as from your comments it eventually seemed to be not even powering up.

Anyhow. For whatever reason your old question got bumped, so i've posted an answer.

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USB keyboards require a small time before they are properly initialized. Just because the backlid works doesn't mean the keyboard is ready to be used. Usually if the numlock can be turned on and off, you know the keyboard is ready to be used.

The BIOS will initialize all your USB hardware in order, and once your keyboard has been initialized it will start to work.

You should unplug all your USB devices and only plugin your USB keyboard, reboot the computer (2 times or more if necessary) until your keyboard is able to work and you can access the BIOS. If it keeps failing, plug it into a different USB port.

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