Beeping Cpu!

[Razielian]

Alright here's the dilly. When i'm playing a pc game and when I use more than 3 keys my pc beeps at me. It's like my cpu can't hadle it. I'm using a Microsoft keyboard with the shortcut buttons on top. Thanx ppl!

[BipolarBill]

Ship the whole thing to me. I'll find a good home for it. :)

Is it a USB keyboard?

[Mr. Sparkle]

Perfectly normal. I've never seen a computer than can handle input from more than 3 keys at once. As a result, the PC beeps, signifying a keyboard error. I hear this a lot when I attempt to play X-Men vs. Street Fighter at work on MAME without a joystick. **** dragon punch motion... :)

[Jimstep]

I think that depends on the application that you are running and where the keyboard focus is. I can press all kinds keys at the same time and never get a beep.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Originally posted by Jimstep
I think that depends on the application that you are running and where the keyboard focus is. I can press all kinds keys at the same time and never get a beep.

Okay, maybe I should re-phrase that then - most GAMES can't handle input from more than a 2-3 keys at a time & cause a beep.

[dmoltrup]

I found the folowing paragraph in The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible, c1993:

The improved error-detection capability of the 84-key and 101/102-key keyboard controllers is largely invisible to your programs, and the keyboard hardware and BIOS service routines are very reliable. The most common errors you might encounter are a full BIOS keyboard buffer or a key combination that the BIOS cannot process. In both situations, the BIOS generates a warning beep to inform you that something unusual has occurred. (For example, try holding down both pairs of Ctrl and Alt keys on a PS/2 keyboard.)

I doubt the above has changed very much in the past nine years. The most notable difference, of course, is the advent of USB keyboards.

[BipolarBill]

It would seem then that Razielian's problem (if it is a problem) is his motherboard/BIOS.