Anyone have experience with Gigabyte AMD boards

[techs]

I have a rather unusual setup for my three computers. I have all three of them hooked up to a Iogear switch and share a single mouse, keyboard and monitor.

For simplicity sake I would like to keep using mobo's with the two features below, and was wondering if Gigabyte boards have them:

1) Do Gigabyte boards have an F11 prompt at boot that lets you choose the boot drive (without going into the bios)?

2) Do Gigabyte boards let you configure your sleep wake up events by choosing different hot keys, especially do they let you choose CTRL+F1?

I know these seem like somewhat unusual criteria, but it would really help if anyone could give some feedback.

 

[lopri]

1) is yes (F12)
2) I do not know. There is an option in the BIOS to set password for "power-on by keyboard", but I do not know how exactly that works. (USB? PS/2?) If it applies to PS/2 I can try it out for you later.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: lopri
1) is yes (F12)
2) I do not know. There is an option in the BIOS to set password for "power-on by keyboard", but I do not know how exactly that works. (USB? PS/2?) If it applies to PS/2 I can try it out for you later.

Thanks, lopri.
Actually, I am not looking for the power on by keyboard, but the Set WakeUp events settings usually under Power Management.

 

[baddog60]

There is a setting on my GA-MA790X-UD4P called "USB Wake Up From S3". I can use my mouse to wake the system up, but I have an older PS/2 keyboard that does not seem to wake it up. I did not see a setting that allows you to choose which key wakes the system up.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: baddog60
There is a setting on my GA-MA790X-UD4P called "USB Wake Up From S3". I can use my mouse to wake the system up, but I have an older PS/2 keyboard that does not seem to wake it up. I did not see a setting that allows you to choose which key wakes the system up.

Upon further research the Gigabytes seem to need you to close a jumper on the mobo to enable the wake up via PS/2. However, it doesn't just wake the computer up from standby it also powers on the computer!
So that's not gonna work for me, since I use a keyboard hot key to cycle thru my kvm, and that would continually start up the computer, even when I wasn't going to use it.