Bios Will Not Post w/ Ducky DK9008 G2 Pro

[Ghostlike]

Hello Everyone,

I recently joined the mechanical keyboard community with my first purchases being a Ducky Zero DK2108 with Brown swtiches and a Ducky DK9008 G2 Pro with Black switches. Here's my problem:

My bios will not post when I have the G2 plugged in as my only keyboard. It will post fine with the Zero, it will post fine with the Zero and G2 both, but not the G2 alone. My motherboard is an Intel DZ77GAL-70k. I tested it on another computer running a Gigabyte mobo, and it boots fine.

Update:

My current work around is to bypass USB on boot. Intel's download center is down right now, so I can't check for BIOS updates. My computer rarely gets shutdown, so this is really not a huge issue for me, but nitpicky enough to rot my brain.

[Findecanor]

Do I understand you right, in that you can't enter BIOS during boot using a specific keyboard, but that it works fine once the OS has booted?

That problem is usually caused because the BIOS is in a "Fast Boot" mode, during which it uses a specific "Keyboard boot protocol" over USB to talk to the keyboard. Not all keyboards support that protocol, however...
If you use another keyboard which does work, you could use it to get into the BIOS settings and switch off "Fast Boot" (or whatever it is called in your BIOS). Then it should recognize all keyboards the next time you restart, but take longer time to start because it is doing memory checks and whatnot.
Too bad that the DK9008G2 does not support PS/2 ... or that would have been another option.

[Ghostlike]

Do I understand you right, in that you can't enter BIOS during boot using a specific keyboard, but that it works fine once the OS has booted?

It doesn't even post when I have the G2 Pro plugged in alone. I get nothing by my bios splash screen, no beeps, nothing; options for bios setup don't even show up. So, it doesn't even boot to OS with the G2 Pro plugged in alone. I actually had to enable fast boot (bypass usb) to be able to boot up properly with the G2 Pro. There's something with the UEFI/BIOS on my DZ77GAL-70k that is not liking the G2 Pro. I tried it on another computer running a Gigabyte motherboard and it boots up just fine with the G2 Pro.

What's weird is that when I have the G2 Pro and the Zero BOTH plugged in, the bios posts fine and OS boot is fine. Once Intel get's their website working properly, I'm going to check for a bios update and see if that fixes it. The keyboard works great once I'm in the OS.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

You would like to think that UEFI would solve all these problems, would you not?

My Filco Majestouch 1 does not work in Dell's UEFI — the keyboard hangs on POST (all three LEDs lit) and doesn't wake up until the OS loads. An old Acer connected to a blue cube works fine, except for the keys that died when I didn't put it back together properly :) (Mine had the membrane glued to the controller!)

[Muirium]

UEFI was a fine enough idea. But Intel made the time honoured mistake of making it backwards compatible. So everyone does a half arsed job with their 1981 looking BIOS emulators even today.

At least, that's been my experience of it. The one clean EFI I've seen is on Intel Macs. Apple did a better job with it (animations for bootable volume detection, etc.) than they did with OpenFirmware on PowerPC.