- Joined
- Mar 9, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX
- CPU
- i9-13900K
- Graphics
- RX 6800 XT
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Ok, so you actually CAN give some time to your BIOS before jumping into bot stage
Ok, nice try
Too bad it didn't change a thing...:
When you say: "So after everything is detected on the initial start-up of the computer, and it shows that I can select the F2 key to enter the bios", did you hit a key during the initial start-up of the computer? (so when the BIOS is detecting Memory, CPU, etc...)
If so, what happened? Did you have some impression that your BT Keyboard was trying to establish a connection with your BT receiver? (Have you the ability to see that kind of thing? Blinking light or something on your KB?)
Just to be clear, here is my boot process:
1. Graphics card BIOS init
2. Motherboard BIOS init (CPU detection / RAM detection / etc...) -> That's when I hit a key to establish connection between KB and BT receiver
3. SATA controllers BIOS init (2 in my case, first Intel, then Marvell)
4. Post -> That's when I can hit the 'Del' or 'F11' or 'F2' key (to do what I wanna do, so enter BIOS, make boot popup appear, etc...)
Please see here if you wanna know more about BIOS init -> http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up
As for the Belkin F8T016CW, still did not try to do what I advised you to do:
0. Unpair Keyboard & all other devices, and delete BT devices
1. Unplug BT receiver / Replug BT receiver
2. Install Keyboard drivers
3. Try to add Keyboard (thus in HCI Mode), and other HCI devices (in my case, Magic Mouse for instance)
4. If successful, try to reboot...
5. Try HID Proxy Mode
Please also note that with a HID Proxy Mode compliant BT receiver, I also CANNOT ACTIVATE HID Proxy Mode when exiting Windows and rebooting...
So, I'm not sure that changing your BT receiver would be a good idea... at least as long I have not been myself able to use HID Proxy Mode after exiting Windows and rebooting...
I can see that you had the same adapter that I bought. I'm still waiting for it and it is going to replace the f8t016ng which works in the bios. The f8t016ng is super reliable and after having bad experiences with the recommended gmyle or whatever is called I bought the f8t065bf so I can upgrade to bt 4.0 to be ready for yosemite. I wonder if you can answer a couple of questions?
Have you tried the 065fb with the hid trick?
How reliable of a connection did you get with it?
Did you only change because of the bios access?
I'm going from bt 2.1 to bt 4.0 but you went the other way around? Unless I'm mistaken and it's bt 4.0 also?
I only bought the adapter as I never had such a reliable adapter as the 016ng. It's just perfect when it comes to connecting and maintaining the connection. The hid proxy thing is just a nice perk and I plan on keeping it for when i need to do it and don't have a usb keyboard around. If you can answer these questions I would really appreciate it.
