Is my Apple Aluminium USB Keyboard broken?

[jb007]

My Apple USB keyboard doesn't work until it gets past the Clover boot loader. It will not get into my BIOS or allow me to navigate in Clover. It works fine in El Capitan 10.11.5. A Microsoft USB keyboard works fine in BIOS and clover as well as OS X.

My motherboard is an ga-z77m-d3h-mvp. I have Legacy USB support enabled.

Any ideas on what could be wrong, I don't really like having to plug in a different keyboard every time I need to change settings?

Cheers Jim

 

[VioletDragon]

My Apple USB keyboard doesn't work until it gets past the Clover boot loader. It will not get into my BIOS or allow me to navigate in Clover. It works fine in El Capitan 10.11.5. A Microsoft USB keyboard works fine in BIOS and clover as well as OS X.

My motherboard is an ga-z77m-d3h-mvp. I have Legacy USB support enabled.

Any ideas on what could be wrong, I don't really like having to plug in a different keyboard every time I need to change settings?

Cheers Jim

Be sure that Legacy USB is enabled in the bios.

 

[jb007]

Thanks, as my last sentence says I have Legacy USB support enabled. Why also does an non Apple keyboard work?

 

[VioletDragon]

Thanks, as my last sentence says I have Legacy USB support enabled. Why also does an non Apple keyboard work?

Urmm strange. What USB port are you using?

 

[jb007]

I've tried USB 1.1/2.0 the 3.0's don't work until OS X loads

 

[VioletDragon]

I've tried USB 1.1/2.0 the 3.0's don't work until OS X loads

Is Clover in UEFI or Legacy? Have you tried another USB keyboard?

 

[jb007]

Clover is in UEFI. I can't get into the BIOS ie DEL or F2 and yes as previous post say I can with another MS keyboard.

 

[VioletDragon]

Clover is in UEFI. I can't get into the BIOS ie DEL or F2 and yes as previous post say I can with another MS keyboard.

Only way to determine if the keyboard is faulty is to try on another computer.

 

[jb007]

Only way to determine if the keyboard is faulty is to try on another computer.

Oh, forgot to say, it works fine ie it can go into bios etc on my Dell XPS12 ultrabook!

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Oh, forgot to say, it works fine ie it can go into bios etc on my Dell XPS12 ultrabook!

I'm guessing you are plugging into the USB port just above the ps/2 keyboard socket on the backplate? That's the correct one for bios entry.

Any other socket won't work until after drivers are loaded.

If it's still not working, but the MS keyboard in same socket is, that's a mystery! Double-check bios settings, but doubtful.