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From: jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: keyboard problem with AMI Bios
Message-ID: <7969@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 90 16:00:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
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Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <it1.653018810@ra> it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
>
>in ROM).  Whenever I start the machine, the message "Keyboard Error.  Press
><F1> to continue" would show up on the screen.  I noticed the keyboard
>decoder is also an AMI chip.

I have the same problem on a 386,33 MGZ, but my problem is more intermittant.
Usually I need to unplug the keyboard and put it back to clear the error.
While it sounds like a connector problem, when I had Phoenix in Bios, this
problem never occurred.

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