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I can answer most questions in this field. In over thirteen years I have never came across a hardware problem that I have not solved. Knowledge range from AMD K6 and Pentuim 1 to date

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PC hardware--CPU & Motherboard & RAM - boot error

Expert: Robert Waldron - 11/4/2009

Question
i have p3 mercury mother board model kob 810e. my mother board's keyboard female plug broken condition. i planed change USB keyboard. i connect usb keyboard and reboot the system. now display "Keyboard Error. press f1 to resume ". iam not able to press f1 becouse keyboard shocket is broken. and my new keyboard is usb type. how to solve this problem without keyboard shocket. please help me. -- m.r.kannan

Answer
Hi Kannan,

Unfortunately, the only way to get a USB keyboard to work at boot is to change settings in your BIOS. You cannot do this without a working keyboard to begin with. There is no way around this, sorry. I am afraid that you have to change your mainboard.

Sorry Again,

Robert

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