Keyboard not working during boot

[odd]

My keyboard does not work during the boot process. As such I cannot enter BIOS or choose an OS from BootMagic. Once the OS is up the keyboard works just fine. The keyboard is not USB. My mobo is Abit BP6.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

odd

[BambiX]

long shot but.
do you have to press del to enter setup?
and are you trieng to use the one on yuour numpad?
if so you might wanna give the numlock key a nudge first.

greetz BambiX

[Floppyman]

Here's another suggestion...I once had a similar problem, turns out I had accidentally plugged the keyboard into the mouse ps/2 port and the mouse into the keyboard ps/2 port. Double check to see if they are correctly plugged and let us know what you come up with. HTH