kae Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabe_ Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Mine works wonderfully... Try enabling the "USB Keyboard" option in BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-665374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 My Alu works perfect for me, even my old Apple Wireless works! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-665376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kae Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Mine works wonderfully... Try enabling the "USB Keyboard" option in BIOS. 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-665436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrismo Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-696433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-709611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-722173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apooo Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 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... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-800187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickniger Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 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% Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-884364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhannan Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-906436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
visva95 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-935869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
luwanda Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 With Alu Keyboard my computer halted at boot, can't even boot into the OS. I've a Foxconn G31 board. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-945158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snerler Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-945166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Castro Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Hey guys , and what about Alu Apple keyboard in other Os (Xp, Linux) ?! Can I return this KBoard back to the futureshop ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-946340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
luwanda Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-946459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tescione Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-956834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari_Juhani Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Have same problems... ALU - keyboard does not work when i boot ( no F2 to BIOS or F8 to choose multiboot ) I have tried all settings from BIOS ( Usb Legacy and USB devices boot first...) but only old Logitech keyboard work on boot up in both ways ( USB and PS/2 ). ALU-keyboard works after OS is booted. Did anyone get this right, i found many questions, but not that many answers on this ? It's not the bios settings ( in my case ). I tried also use ALU with PS/2 - adapter, no luck there... Kari Intel Core2 Quad (Q6600) and DG33FB. Newest BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1024666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuukka H Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Sorry Kari but there's nothing to do.. It just doesnt work with some mobos. It's easier to use another small keyboard when u want to select boot volume etc. Oh and nice to see finnish guys here.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1038845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I have the same issue with my DG33GB and latest bios (january 2009) this keyboard doesn't seems to work on intel boards but my other Logitec USB keyboard it works in USB mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1045357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshat.gupta Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 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? Hi, I have the same keyboard and motherboard (dg33fbc) and am facing the same issue. I have the latest BIOS update in place but still it doesn't work. i even followed up the issue with intel but no results. I think getting a keyboard firmware update might help but i can't seem to find anyone with a mac to do it for me. If you find a solution then please inform me, I'd be really thankful. thanks and regards, akshat Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1063329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UloveIt777 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hi, just spent one hour on the phone with the Apple support. It appears that BootCamp for Tiger is a beta with an expiry date and thus new keyboards from Apple don't support Alt at boot. If you want to access your other bootable partitions at boot with new Apple keyboards, you're forced to upgrade to Leopard and hence get the new bootcamp: it's wanted to force upgrades. We live in a money world... ++ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1089117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistolpitah Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 hi all, been having the same problem. what's odd is that when i boot into OSX first, then restart, the keyboard doesn't work for bios/chameleon. however, when i load into windows first, then restart, they keyboard works for bios/chameleon. then, when i go into osx again and restart, same non-working keyboard. im thinking there must be something that windows does that let's the mobo/bios recognize the keyboard on subsequent startups. anyone have any ideas how to get that to work w/ osx? thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1335156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 anyone had any luck with this? I have built 2 hackintosh's, the one with Intel DG35EC board doesnt support the alu keyboard during boot, and the ASUS p5p43td pro does support it, seems intel boards just cannot run it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1479757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakasaki Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 I've got it working on 4 different mobo's now including an intel one, by simply plugging a usb mouse into the first usb then the keyboard into the second, sometimes doesn't work on cold boot though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93303-alu-keyboard-not-working-on-boot/#findComment-1585548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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