First post, by iulianv
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I managed to break an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe board 🙁 - after spending 4-5 hours to clean that system (wipe the dust, install OS updates, defragment the HDD, etc), I thought of replacing some of the jumpers so that they'd all be the same colour.
At some point, with the system turned off (but PSU plugged-in), I took out the KEYB-PWR jumper, and the CPU fan immediately started spinning. I then unplugged the PSU and went on with the rest of the jumpers.
When finished I booted the system and noticed that the mouse and keyboard weren't working anymore. Then made the mistake to clear the CMOS, and now it gets stuck at "CMOS defaults loaded", "keyboard is locked - remove key lock" and "floppy disk failure" types of messages.
I purchased an USB-to-PS/2-keyboard+mouse adaptor, but that doesn't work either - I figured clearing the CMOS would leave the USB keyboard support enabled in BIOS, but apparently that didn't seem logical to those who "designed" the clear-CMOS operation on this board ("The USB keyboard is disabled by default", says the manual) 😠 .
Is there anything I can do to fix this, that doesn't involve an identical board or BIOS chip, or reprogramming the BIOS chip somewhere else?