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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by yomlica8 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @08:48AM (#36861449)
In high school I'd reserve workstations for my friends by unplugging the keyboard. The PC would fail to boot with "Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue" which was enough to get it designated broken and avoided.
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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by LoganDark on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:00PM (#36864327)
> Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue

I don't know why this is so funny. Probably because it's a catch-22 since you need a keyboard anyway in order to press F1.

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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by alexjm on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:48PM (#36867444)
It's a poorly worded message, but the idea is that you press F1 after plugging in (or otherwise fixing) the keyboard.
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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by jweather on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:31PM (#36868939)
I did this unintentionally in college once by switching the keyboard layout to Dvorak, which for some reason persisted across logins. I came back later that day to the same lab and the station I had been using was marked "Out of Order". Huh, that's weird. Sat down at the station next to it. Next day both of them were marked "Out of Order". Oh, huh. Is there something weird with the keyboard? I might know what happened...
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