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First post, by Tomek TRV

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Hi
My XT-IDE is working fine in many computers but now I installed it into my PC XT. Of course BIOS is for XT. When I turned on the computer everything seems to work ok but after starting DOS keyboard is not working, but after a few presses of any key I hear beeping in the speaker. When I start my XT without XT-IDE, from floppy, keyboard is working. What may cause this effect and how to solve this problem? My XT-IDE is set to default settings - addresses (the most popular).

Reply 1 of 7, by rasz_pl

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beeping when pressing keys usually means keyboard buffer full = software too slow to empty it in time. Why would XT-IDE bios cause that I dont know. hmm wrong IRQ set hijacking keyboard?

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 2 of 7, by Tomek TRV

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I tried all jumper settings for IRQ but without any changes.

Reply 3 of 7, by Tomek TRV

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Maybe I should write info about keyboard into autoexec.bat (UK, USA, doesn't mater only not german) but I forget how to do it.

Reply 4 of 7, by rasz_pl

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I dont think that would make any difference. Imo it sounds like a hardware resource conflict.
you could start by revealing model of the mobo, have you tried different bioses for it?

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 5 of 7, by waterbeesje

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Do you load the Keyb in your boot files? Maybe try to add a REM in front to disable it and see what happens...?
Is it the same DOS version as the boot disk?

Stuck at 10MHz...

Reply 6 of 7, by Tomek TRV

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So I am not loading any keyb files and I would like to do it but I don't remember how. It is so long time when I was doing it last time. I have to add some lines to autoexec.bat and config. sys for sure. Now I have to go to work for about 2 weeks but I will try all of Your propositions to solve this problem when I will be back to home.

Reply 7 of 7, by Tomek TRV

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So I have now original XT keyboard and it is working fine (no problem with XT-IDE). I used AT to XT keyboard adapter before so now I know that this adapter is a problem in this case.