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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Numlock on when booting... How?
Message-ID: <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 21 May 91 18:01:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1991May21.180122.19414
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andre@cv.ruu.nl (Andre Koster) writes:

>I would like to see that my numlock on my keyboard is default 'on'
>when I start up my pc. Can someone tell me how this can be achieved?

Well, unless you have a 286, this is not even *possible*. PC & XT
BIOS support for the keyboard does not include LEDs. Those came with
the AT. There's no provision for sending anything *to* the keyboard
except a "reset" code.

With an AT, all you need to do is flip the numlock flag in the BIOS
data area in low RAM. There are lots of programs for doing that, just
stick one in your autoexec. 

A few AT BIOS's allow setting the initial state of the numlock key.
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