Pressing DELETE to enter the bios does not work most of the time

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#1

So this is an odd one, pressing DELETE to enter the bios does not work most of the time, especially, when coming from a reboot done in the OS, so its quite frustrating having to do a bunch of OS reboots and not being able to enter the bios.

I’ve tried with a normal USB keyboard (non-composite device), a wifi based usb keyboard (composite device of keyboard+mouse) and with the raspberry pi keyboard and mouse (keyboard is a composite usb device, and the mouse is attached to the it).

I’ve tried to increase the time the bios waits for a keypress and it does not help.

Any advice?

#2

How often does this not work for your case?

#3

99% of the time it does not work.

Disabling Fast Boot does makes this work, but, well, as expected, now the boot is not that fast, which is a bummer.

I failed to fiddle with this bios setting:

  1. Chipset
  2. South Cluster Configuration
  3. USB Configuration
  4. XHCI Pre-Boot Driver
    192.168.1.74_kvm_ (2)
    192.168.1.74_kvm_ (2)1280×720 107 KB

So, at the end of the day, I would want Fast Boot AND USB keyboard+mouse working in the bios :slight_smile:

Is that possible? If not, why not?

Also, is there documentation about all the bios settings?

#4

I just bought my Odyssey and I have the same problem with an Arteck keyboard / mouse wireless combo. Delete for Bios works sometimes while F7 for boot menu never.
Strangely I have a wireless Logitech keyboard which works for both the Bios and the Boot Menu.

The same Arteck keyboard works perfectly with the BIOS and Boot Menu of another PC.

I have fast bios disabled.
Any ideas?

#5

Can you try to have one keyboard in a USB 2.0 connector and one in the USB 3.0 connector?
That seem to have solved the issue for me: after doing that and then using a single keyboard I can access the BIOS with a single key press.