trouble with keyboard during boot

[memory]

I figured this is the best place for this because it is not a hardware issue. Whenever I have to restart my computer manually by pushing the restart button, when I comes to the screen where it ask how I want to start windows, the keyboard does not work. I also ran memtest86+ today and didn't work for that either. The only way I could stop memtest was manually restarting, probably not good for it. I know it is not the keyboard because I tried 2 different keyboards and both did the same thing. The keyboard works fine once windows has started up. I hooked the keyboard up to different usb ports and no help. Has anybody else had this problem? What could it be? I am using Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit.

The funny thing is I can enter the bios so it must stop working sometime after the bios screen. It works in the bios without trouble. Also you know how you have to push a button to get it to boot from cd, well I have no trouble there either. I can also enter a password to log into windows. So it is somewhere in between where I boot from cd and the windows login screen. This doesn't make sense.

 

[carnageX]

Do you have USB Keyboard support enabled in BIOS?

 

[memory]

I'm not sure. What section would that be under? I will check that out. If it was disabled, would the keyboard work at all?

 

[KSoD]

The keyboard would work in Windows cause it has its own seperate USB drivers for support. If it is off in the BIOS it wouldnt work anywhere else.

 

[memory]

I got it working. I had to enable usb keyboard support. Thanks for the help.

Since usb keyboard support was disabled, I don't understand why it worked in the bios.

 

[KSoD]

I think they use Generic drivers for BIOS support so that if you have USB you can use it. Rather than having to find a PS/2 to USB connector to make it work.

 

[memory]

Okay problem solved. Thread can be closed.

 

[KSoD]

Closed upon request.