Hardware: Logitech USB Keyboard Asus Motherboard Problem: Approximately every 100th cold boot/system restart, the BIOS message, as it is displaying memory, hard drives, etc., is all scrambled, even in colour, and the beep that normally occurs at boot becomes a single long ring that never stops, and the system hangs, unresponsive to any input. Solution: To remedy this, one must unplug the computer, wait until the LED on the motherboard extinguishes, remove the battery from the motherboard, plug in a spare PS/2 keyboard, put the battery and power cable back in, and reboot. Then, the BIOS settings must all be set from scratch, as they are totally awry - no, not the defaults! If one does not use a PS/2 keyboard, no keyboard entry is possible. If one does not remove the battery, then some mysterious BIOS supervisor password will be set that cannot be circumvented (I don't use a BIOS supervisor password). After having performed all of these steps, the system works perfectly, like before, until about the 100th time (wild guess - a long time - but often the problem occurs 2 or 3 times in a row, then not at all for weeks). Curiously, the same problem existed with a previous Asus motherboard (same USB keyboard, which works perfectly, as far I am able to determine from regular, daily use). Is this an Asus problem, since 2 Asus motherboards are affected (I upgraded the BIOS, but there have not been any new upgrades available for 18 months), a USB keyboard problem (the problem occured on the older motherboard while kbd, not evdev, was in use), or something altogether different? I have been unable to replicate the problem or determine any actions/states that appear to produce it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
