Keyboard under DOS

[fast_killer007]

Good time for everyone! I'm a biginner. I have MB ASUS AT4NM-I with not working PS/2. When I plug in USB Keyboard in MB, then BIOS asks for pressing F1 or F2. But no action on pressing. And it sticks at it, waiting for action. So I can't access BIOS setup. Without any keybord win 7 starts and USB keyboard works propely. A goal is to load modified rom bios (ignore any error on post) with amiflash 7.11, but it also asks for answer YES to confirm.
I have hdd with MS-DOS 8.0 and I tried to load USB drivers for Keyboard. No success. Only works Lights NumLock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock.

Autoexec.bat
USBUHCIL Index 0 /disablelegacy
USBUHCIL Index 1 /disablelegacy
USBUHCIL Index 2 /disablelegacy
USBUHCIL Index 3 /disablelegacy
USBKEYB
USBUHCIL I0 AD > AD0-2.TXT
USBUHCIL I1 AD > AD1-2.TXT
USBUHCIL I2 AD > AD2-2.TXT
USBUHCIL I3 AD > AD3-2.TXT
USBHOSTS.COM

USBUHCIL 0.14, (C) 2007-2010, Bret E. Johnson.
DOS Driver for a Universal HCI compatible USB Host Controller.
LITE version (maximum 16 Devices, no Isochronous Transactions).


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Host Index: 2 Host Type: UHCI Bus Type: PCI IRQ#: 11 Root Hub Ports: 2
Vendor: 8086h = Intel Corp Product: 27C9h
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Can anybody help? Badly need your advices! How can I force my keybord to work under DOS?

[Bret]

2 issues. First of all, it looks like for some reason your BIOS is not set up to use the USB keyboard, which is a HUGE problem for you. There is probably a setting in your BIOS somewhere that talks about "Legacy USB Support" (or something like that) that is not configured correctly. And, since you can't use the USB keyboard in the BIOS you can't change it. I think the only way you'll be able to get around that problem is by getting hold of a PS2 keyboard. It's unclear from your post if you don't have a PS2 port on the computer, or the PS2 port doesn't work, or don't have a PS2 keyboard, or the PS2 keyboard you have doesn't work (and maybe another one would).

Anyway, since the LEDs on the keyboard are working it sounds like the USB keyboard and USB drivers are probably OK. What I think is probably happening is that USBKEYB is incompatible with your keyboard BIOS for some reason. Try loading the KEYB driver from Microsoft, which "replaces" your keyboard BIOS with a new one. Note that the only one that will work correctly is one from Microsoft DOS (DOS 6 or DOS 7/Win9x are the latest ones). The other KEYB "clones", like the ones that come with FreeDOS, don't actually replace the keyboard BIOS like the Microsoft one does and they won't help you.

The line I have in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file is:

C:\DOS\KEYB US,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS

to load the US keyboard driver. You need two files from MS-DOS (KEYB.EXE and KEYBOARD.SYS) to load the Microsoft keyboard driver for US English. If you have some other kind of (non-US) keyboard, you may need a different .SYS file (like maybe KEYBRD2.SYS) and will need to change the "US" to something else.

[fast_killer007]

Many thanks for reply!
MB does have ps/2 ports, but they are not working. May be somebody broke then by hot plug and unplug. PS/2 kb only flashes with all three LEDS one time on power up. MB is not mine.
So, I'll try your advice.

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some time later...

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You are the BEST!!! Respect to you, BRET !!!
Everything works fine!!! I did what i wanted!

I made a bootable usb flash image file (256mb) under DOS 8.
If you don't mind I place it here. www.service-pc.ru/rm.rar Just exctract and run RMPREPUSB. Select proper lang and then select your drive to burn image. Then press File to Drive. Choose KB_DOS.img and burn.