Hey friends,

I finally got my ASUS mobo to post! I’ve been working on this for hours until I realized it simply didn’t like my RAM selection. 😜 Swapped the RAM and it now will post.

However, it always goes directly into the BIOS menu. The keyboard *LOCK LEDs (caps/num/scroll) flash briefly and then I am in the BIOS screen.

The keyboard exhibits odd behavior:
1. ESC key works
2. CTRL-ALT-DELETE works
3. Num-lock and Scroll-lock LEDs work, but Caps-lock LED does not
4. I mash a bunch of buttons and then all of a sudden the menu selection starts jumping around quickly and I have to hit ESC to get it to stop. This jumping around behavior only starts after a while, it takes some time.
5. After this, keyboard mostly works. It still jumps around a bit but I can find my way into the different menus and change settings and stuff.

So the keyboard more or less works but it is not super responsive, it jumps around some, and every now and then the selection just goes crazy until I hit ESC to get it to stop.

Anyway, once I set everything in BIOS and save it, it reboots, and goes directly back to the BIOS menu. I have to wait once again for the keyboard to work.

It never seems to want to boot past BIOS. And I never hit ‘del’ to go into BIOS or anything, it just does it automatically.

Things I’ve tried:
1. Replace CMOS battery
2. Remove CMOS battery, unplug PSU, leave sitting for several minutes, plug everything back up and try again (same result)
3. Changed every random jumper I can think of on the mobo but possibly missed something 🤷
4. Found a switch in my old keyboard to swap between 88 and 286 mode (?) but there are no other settings

Any ideas here? I’m leaning toward this computer just not being compatible. I have a couple adapters on the way to try using a PS/2 keyboard, but I’m not sure if someone has maybe seen this or has any ideas?

Thanks!