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President Ark posted:Had a pretty good one yesterday. Happened during the boot process. Yeah these happen pretty commonly. You are expected to plug a new keyboard in and then press the key. Its mostly a holdover from when keyboard was the only real input. With a media center you might not need a keyboard and just have a USB IR receiver and a remote, though you probably should just get a wireless keyboard or leave one tucked away in case you need maintenance. Still it's something that should be gotten rid of now on most things. I was going to say other than linux servers, but you are probably just going to remote into them. I see zero need for a BIOS to demand a keyboard. pixaal fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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If I plug in only a USB IR remote, my Dell laptop won't boot without pressing a key on the internal keyboard which is quite annoying since it's ostenibly my HTPC. Oddly if I plug a wireless keyboard/mouse dongle as well it boots fine.
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 04:19 |
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~Coxy posted:If I plug in only a USB IR remote, my Dell laptop won't boot without pressing a key on the internal keyboard which is quite annoying since it's ostenibly my HTPC. Oddly if I plug a wireless keyboard/mouse dongle as well it boots fine. There's an option in BIOS to ignore keyboard errors.
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 14:39 |
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Crowley posted:There's an option in BIOS to ignore keyboard errors. But how do you set it without a keyboard???
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 20:37 |
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# ? Sep 4, 2014 20:45 |
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pixaal posted:Yeah these happen pretty commonly. You are expected to plug a new keyboard in and then press the key. Its mostly a holdover from when keyboard was the only real input. With a media center you might not need a keyboard and just have a USB IR receiver and a remote, though you probably should just get a wireless keyboard or leave one tucked away in case you need maintenance. Yeah, but when that error message first appeared, keyboards were the non-hotswappable PS2 and you couldn't plug in a keyboard without robooting. So, it truly was a useless error message. It was literally impossible to 'Press F1' to continue
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 15:35 |
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It probably used less space in ROM to call the same "press f1 to continue" subroutine for every error rather than building an exception for a keyboard error, especially on a computer that could reasonably be useless without one.
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# ? Sep 5, 2014 15:49 |
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It then decided it couldn't upload for an unspecified reason.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 14:54 |
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I was trying to import data to a MySQL database via the command line utility:code:
Turns out D:\Temp is the server's temp drive, not my local one, and I had filled it.
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# ? Sep 17, 2014 07:01 |
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I guess WSAT's a little weird about running with silent denial of admin cred elevation.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 00:54 |
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Girlfriend just sent me this one: A .docx file that won't export to PDF, instead generating the above error. Just what you need when you're finishing a job! HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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HalloKitty posted:Girlfriend just sent me this one: What's wrong with that? The export failed and Word didn't recognized the error code returned. That's pretty much all the application can do at that point.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:46 |
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That's less bad if it's a third party print-to-PDF driver, but that's pretty unacceptable if it's Word's internal "save to PDF" function.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:03 |
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Still, it could at least show an error code or something.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:17 |