FoxBoom!

So I grabbed a second hand Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard off Spirit to build into a little media server for the PCs and Xbox-es around the house.

One the first day, I plugged DVI out into my TV’s HDMI, and nothing happened. Turns out my TV couldn’t sync down low enough. Poop.

On the second and third days, right after the POST, we were getting “Keyboard is locked out — unlock the key.”

Well, I checked for shorts, I reset the CMOS, I pulled the battery out. And just now, I figured it out. The keyboard wake-up jumper (KBPWR1) was missing. I plugged it back into the default (pins 1 + 2), and it’s done!

With thanks to page 2-15 of the A7N8X manual.

I think “unlock the key” is gonna be my new motivational slogan.