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Offline stratokaster

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Dell AT101W slow boot up
« on: Mon, 16 March 2015, 23:09:51 »
I have never thought that a keyboard can slow down the boot process of a PC, but apparently my Dell AT101W does exactly that. After turning the PC on, the screen is completely blank for ~5 seconds, after that the keyboard is initialized (the keyboard LEDs turn on and off) and the boot process continues as usual. If I plug in any other PS/2 keyboard, it's initialized immediately after turning the PC on, without any annoying delays.  :confused:

Is it normal? Or something is wrong with my AT101W?
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Re: Dell AT101W slow boot up
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 00:45:47 »
Some motherboards will sit there for a while polling the USB devices; if one acts weird, it can cause a major delay in boot.  Not sure if it willl behave the same way with PS/2.,
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Re: Dell AT101W slow boot up
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 07:48:03 »
This happens to me, I have an ASRock motherboard with AM3 CPU.
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Offline stratokaster

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Re: Dell AT101W slow boot up
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 17 March 2015, 10:43:45 »
I use a Gigabyte motherboard (Socket 1150). I just checked — none of my other keyboards cause any delay, so it's definitely unique to Dell AT101W
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