aurel

I just threw away that PC Partner mobo, baby AT form factor, very unstable, almost unusable, it was giving me only headaches. I had bought it at that time because it was very cheap and I was at the beginning of learning how to use a pc or assembling it. Anyway, I have had always problems with via chipsets. I remember having an AMD K6/2 proc with another via chipset mobo and always freezing into a "windows protection error". Thanks for your answers!

I'm not sure I did! The mobo had 2 USB ports only usable via headers, but they never worked, no matter what device I plugged in them. I don't know what was in my head when I first bought this mobo, even the PS/2 port was available to use via a header too. It was always very hard to connect devices to it. Anyway, yesterday I threw the mobo as I've tried almost everything I could, took the battery out, clearing CMOS, reading on the internet about PCI USB card and I learned that if I connected a USB keyboard to such a card, I woudn't be able to access the BIOS menu at boot time. But, "the mobo is dead, long live the mobo!". I also have a boxed, never-used k7vt4a pro mobo for socket A(462). I'll try to find a sempron proc as I don't have one yet. The pc I write this from is also a piece of antiquity: 11 year old Mendocino 520 MHz/ Intel440BX.

Thanks for welcoming me on this forum and for your answers! I don't want to spend any money on a device that wouldn't work after all. This is a 2001's Apollo Pro 133A mobo, maybe somebody has experienced a connection of a USB Keyboard to a PCI to USB Adaptor and knows if it's detected at boot.

If I plug a USB keyboard into a PCI to USB card adaptor, will I be able to go into BIOS menu at boot by pressing Del, or this kind of PCI card will let me use the USB keyboard in Windows only, by installing its drivers?