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Title:IBM PCs, clones, DOS, etc.
Notice:Intro in 1-11, Windows stuff in NOTED::MSWINDOWS please
Moderator:TARKIN::LINND
Created:Tue Jan 03 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3023
Total number of notes:28404

2936.0. "Keyboard Lock Error" by RASVAX::ESTEKI () Sat Mar 01 1997 23:00

    We have purchased a "spacewalker" hot-553 MB, a pentium 133, with a
    keyboard and floppy drive connected.  When we try to boot up, we
    recieve a "keyboard lockout" error.  Any help would be greatly
    appreciated.
    
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2936.1Keyboard Lock Jumper?NETCAD::J_ADAMSKISun Mar 02 1997 18:197
    
    Most motherboards have a keyboard lockout jumper. Make sure that
    you haven't set this jumper to the locked position. This jumper
    is commonly routed to a keyswitch on the front of most cases.
    
    
    - Joe
2936.2CFSCTC::SMITHTom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751Sun Mar 02 1997 19:3951
    On that board, JP8 is a 5-pin connector containing both the keyboard
    lock and power LED connectors. You probably need to jumper the
    right-hand 2 pins if you don't have a keyboard lock switch on your
    case.
    
    The documentation on all of the connectors is poor, but especially on
    JP12, 13, 14, 7, 8, and 20, which are all in a row at the front (card
    slots at the back), and JP74, which is the middle 2 of 6 pins just in
    front of the aluminum heatsink. Antec technical support was of no help
    to me, but from experimentation they should be connected as follows
    (all 2-pin connectors unless otherwise noted):
    
    	JP12 -	front-panel reset switch
    	JP13 -	(turbo switch - use unknown on this board)
    	JP14 -	(turbo LED - presumably polarized, presumably on when in
    		turbo mode, but use unknown)
    	JP7  -	4 pins. speaker (the cheap little one that comes with the case)
    		Positions 1 and 4 are used.
    	JP8  -  5 pins. In theory, this could probably have been wired so that
    		it didn't make any difference how you plugged in a 3-pin and a
    		2-pin connector, but it doesn't seem to have been done that
    		way. Looking from the front (card slots along the back):
    		
			Positions 1 and 3 (from the left) - power LED.
    			Polarized.
    
   			Positions 4 and 5 - keyboard lock switch
    			This is intended to be connected to a key
    			switch. If you don't have one, these 2 pins should
    			be jumpered, I think. I believe that open is the
    			"locked" position. It could be the other way
    			though.
    
    	JP20 -	IDE (disk activity) LED. Polarized.
    	JP74 -	"Green" LED. Polarized. Lights to indicate that the
    		processor is in "doze", "standby", or "suspend" mode.
    
    When you get to the BIOS setup screens, you may find it helpful to get
    the description of the screens for Triton II boards from the Award WWW
    site:
    
    	http://www.award.com/Docs/i82430hx.htm
                        
    There are some minor differences bewteen the full setup described on
    that page and the specific setup on this board, but the descriptions
    are far better, and they're in actual English. The power saving
    timeouts are a little strange, however, even with better descriptions.
    
    If you have any questions, feel free to send me e-mail.
    
    -Tom
2936.3No jumperTLE::INGRAMoopsMon Mar 03 1997 14:229
> If you don't have one, these 2 pins shouldcbe jumpered, I think. I believe
> that open is the "locked" position. It could be the other way though.
    
	It is the other way around. A system with a keylock shorts the jumper
	pins when in lock mode.

Larry

2936.4TLE::INGRAMoopsMon Mar 03 1997 14:367
	Oh, yeah, the manufacturer (Shuttle) has a web site at
	http://www.shuttlegroup.com/. There are .PDF versions of the manual
	and the latest BIOS/flash utility for downloading.

Larry
	
2936.5Yes, jumper was set incorrectlyRASVAX::ESTEKIMon Mar 03 1997 22:198
    Thanks everyone for replying. I downloaded the manual (as in .4) and
    after looking at it, It turned out that my son had set that particular 
    jumper incorrectly. All is well now.
    
    Again thank you to those who replyed.
    
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