Take a look in the system BIOS...My 3+ year old ABIT motherboard
allows a bios support for USB keyboard option, precisely for that
reason.

Of course, that's just in my case.  I doubt ALL motherboard
manufacturers were as forward thinking.  ;-)

Mike H.

>Just added a USB keyboard to a system a week ago.
>Took it off again within a day.
>Reason: I'm currently multi-booting with either WIN98 and WIN XP and WIN98
>is the 2nd choice. To make a choice other than the default the user has to
>use the keyboard. The USB keyboard doesn't come alive until AFTER the O/S
>has booted. Obvious but stupid. Also, how would you eg alter system
>settings
>or select startup option? If they remove the PS/2  port then they MUST
>enable the USB at some level in firmware at boot time OR radically alter
>boot philosophy.
>
>
>         Russell McMahon

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