I bought the new aluminum keyboard from Apple, but it doesn't work on boot. After searching around I found that many Mac mini's have the same problem. Anyone got this working on boot ?

Kae.

Mine works wonderfully... Try enabling the "USB Keyboard" option in BIOS.

My Alu works perfect for me, even my old Apple Wireless works!

I don't have that option in BIOS (badaxe2), but I have USB legacy enabled. I just updated the BIOS since the releasenotes says "Fixed issue where certain keyboard does not work with USB Legacy support", but still no luck

My Aluminum Apple keyboard works, except for the F keys. So I cant boot into bios with it. It works fine once OSX has booted though. Annoyiong. I dont dont want to have to keep another keyboard around just to adjust BIOS settings. And it;s such a nice keyboard. Searching for solution. Legacy USB on with Badaxe2 Mobo.

Did you find any solution? I just upgraded keyboards firmware and it doesnt work. Everything is ok when on vista or osx but no way to choose which I want to boot.

this problem is not restricted to this specific keyboard.
on some motherboards a usb keyboards wont work at bootup.
in most cases enabling usb legacy and similiar in the bios solves this.
but sometimes one needs a ps2 keyboard first to access the bios though.

well, i had the old apple keyboard usb connected which worked very good. Now i bought the wired apple alu keyboard and i can not access the bios because of the non functional keyboard. It doesn´t work at all until a os is loaded (vista or leopard). In Leopard are all keys functional!

I have a badaxe2 mainboard and i made the firmwareupdate of the keyboard with my macbook...still no sucess..tryed all usb ports...nothing...

anybody an idea? I didn´t try a ps2 adapter...

Hy, i had the same problems with an apple keyboard and mithymouse on
a Asus p5gd.
I had to disable the usb legacy in Bios!

Now works 100%

I have the same issue here....

Intel XBX2, wont work at boot with Alu Keyboard....I have another USB keyboard that DOES work at boot so I dont think it is a USB setting in general....

Any ideas....anybody?

I have exactly the SAME problem! My brand new apple keyboard doesn't work with the bios or windows bootloader, which means I can't get into my OSx86 installation. My Intel BIOS on the DG33FB mobo doesn't have options for "Integrated Peripherals" to enable USB keyboard support, but I did enable the option for Legacy USB support.

Does anyone have answers?

With Alu Keyboard my computer halted at boot, can't even boot into the OS. I've a Foxconn G31 board. Any ideas?

On my computer the Apple Aluminum keyboard does not work on cold boots. If its a warm boot it works normally. My other USB keyboard works every time so there is something wrong with the aluminum keyboard.

Hey guys , and what about Alu Apple keyboard in other Os (Xp, Linux) ?!
Can I return this KBoard back to the futureshop ?

finaly got it working. Here is what I've changed in the BIOS setting.Put the USB setting to adjust speed automaticly.
http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/huangshihch...109630751713634

I have the same problem with my aly keyboard. When I have legacy enabled in the BIOS I can choose an OS but it won't work in Leopard. With legacy disabled I can't choose an OS in the BIOS ( It selects the default after 5 sec.) but it works in Leopard.
I already tried the usb fix for matching the kernel version and the system.kext version (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=95789). This helped for the mounting of USB-devices during a session. But it didn't fix the keyboard problem.

The solution posted above about increasing the usb-speed isn't possible on my motherboard (asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA).

Any other suggestions?