P45 chipset and keyboard issues.

plasmahal · 18 Jun 2010 at 08:26

I recently upgraded to a P45 chipset motherboard due to the 3yr old p35 failing.

Since then I not been able to boot the machine properly with both my saitek eclipse 2 and the zboard fang gaming pad.

When both are plugged in, It posts OK and then goes through the first steps of loading the BIOS setups like memory check and then stops, both keyboards are non responsive, ie if I press the del key I cannot enter the bios setup.

I've tried various BIOS options, updated to the latest BIOS etc.

Leaving the the zboard fang unplugged and everything is fine.

I've looked via google for other people with this issue and have so far not found any. nothing on the zboard site.

I'm certain it's a P45 issues as this is the second board I tried (first was an asus P5Q P45 board but had no raid chip, so i got another gigabyte).

Anyone else found this issue?

WingZero30 · 18 Jun 2010 at 16:53

Try taking out the cmos battery to reset bios and try again.

WingZero30 · 18 Jun 2010 at 17:56

Try pressing DEL key several times to enter bios. I have the same motherboard.

plasmahal · 18 Jun 2010 at 23:16

WingZero30 said:
Try taking out the cmos battery to reset bios and try again.

Yep, done that several times.

plasmahal · 18 Jun 2010 at 23:17

WingZero30 said:
Try pressing DEL key several times to enter bios. I have the same motherboard.

Thats's the point, with the zboard fang plugged in, the main keyboard does not respond.

Do you have a zboard fang as well then?

WingZero30 · 18 Jun 2010 at 23:22

plasmahal said:
Thats's the point, with the zboard fang plugged in, the main keyboard does not respond.

Do you have a zboard fang as well then?

I have saitek eclipse 1 keyboard and razer diamond mouse. So when zboard fang is unplugged the keyboard works fine yeah?. So when you plug in zboard fang, it doesn't and the system malfunctions. You mentioned asus and u were having similar problems?

WingZero30 · 18 Jun 2010 at 23:27

Hmm seems to be an issue with Zfang. Have you spoken to the manufacturer of Zfang or retailer from whom you bought this pad?

plasmahal · 20 Jun 2010 at 10:44

WingZero30 said:
I have saitek eclipse 1 keyboard and razer diamond mouse. So when zboard fang is unplugged the keyboard works fine yeah?. So when you plug in zboard fang, it doesn't and the system malfunctions. You mentioned asus and u were having similar problems?

I'm using the gigabyte in my sig now, but did try an asus with p45 chipset and had the same issues.