On 26 March 2016 at 16:53, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2016 16:11:22 Alan McConnell wrote: > > I have been told by a kind responder that my keyboard > > is inadequate, and I should borro(buy?) a new one. Since > > my present keyboard works fine for all purposes up to now, > > I don't see why my difficulty should be attributable to > > the inadequacy of my present keyboard. > > We are looking for possible explanations. A problem with your keyboard > (from > the BIOS's point of view, not yours) is a likely explanation. If you > refuse > to try the suggestions made, on the grounds that you know that they are > wrong, it is difficult to help you. > > In your position I would try several different keyboards of several > different > types. As many as possible. If you can't lay your hands on another > keyboard, then you may be stuck. Do none of the suggestions that do not > involve keyboards help? > > Can you get someone to show you the repeated-clicking method to make sure > that > you are doing it correctly? > > Perhaps your motherboard is the thing that is faulty???? There is > something > wrong with something. > > Have you thought of upgrading my simply upgrading?
On my AMD 3400 box I had to use the bios manually every time I wanted to boot linux - the grub menu would not spontaneously appear. But upgrading to debian jessie and beyond somehow cured the problem. Regds MF > Though make sure you know > what to do before you do it. > > Lisi > > -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015
