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Hi Everybody,
I made a bootable usb with Bootable and was able to get the congratulation screen. Upon exiting to the does prompt any key I press will repeat many times over. Any idea what may be the cause. I am using a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. A generic wireless keyboard and mouse was tried also with the same results. I can't find my wired usb keyboard to see if that fixes the problem. My PC has a b450 Tomahawk Max motherboard. I want to fix this before I buy spinrite 6.1. Any help would be greatly apperciated.

Tom

Edit #1.
Just wanted everybody to know that a wired usb keyboard is actually worse! My MB has a PS2 keyboard port and I will borrow one from a friend and try that out and report back.

Edit #2. The old PS2 keyboard worked just fine with no repeating keys on the Freedos text screen. (I almost typed Prodos, from my Apple ][ + days). So it looks like Freedos has a problem with usb keyboad input. Knowing how thorough Steve is with assembly language I doubt he uses a call to Freedos for Spinrite 6.1's keyboard input and writes that part himself. I should be fine buying Spinrite 6.1 .
 
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It is probably the wireless keyboard ( or the wireless receiver). Switching to a wired keyboard should solve it.
 
Another modern AMD board. My guess is that this is a BIOS bug. I doubt motherboard vendors do much testing of CSM mode nowadays.

You could try updating the BIOS. If that doesn't work, try booting regular FreeDOS. I doubt this has anything to do with Steve's version of FreeDOS, but it would be worth checking.


You should be able to use Rufus to build the USB drive.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy way
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