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I cannot use my keyboard or mouse ever since I enabled secure boot and disabled csm on my desktop. I can’t even use these when I get into the BIOS (by pressing Del at startup). After I go into BIOS, my keyboard and mouse don’t work.

I’m just stuck with the black screen prompting to press F11 for boot menu or Del for BIOS setup.

And I have tried resetting the PC.

How do I fix this?

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    With CSM disabled, the legacy USB support may not work, so you may need UEFI specific USB HID support.
    – svin83
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 1:45
  • How do I get that when I can’t use my mouse or keyboard?
    – Kashif
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 1:47
  • Try plugging your keyboard into a different USB port. USB HID support may be limited to either USB2.x or USB3.x ports.
    – svin83
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 1:50
  • Didn’t work either.
    – Kashif
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 3:50
  • your motherboard probably has a user manual
    – svin83
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 14:34

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Same happened to me a few months ago, and today as well. What happened was, I was trying to get my PC ready for Windows 11 installation, where Safe Boot is required, so I tried to enable it. Well, in order for Safe Boot to be enabled, I needed to disable the CSM and then, what happened was even worse than your case. Nor keyboard, mouse or MONITOR were turning on! I had no control over my PC and I was blind as well.

What I had done was resetting the BIOS to default values (that is to clear CMOS). If there is a CLR_CMOS (Clearing CMOS Jumper) jumper on the motherboard, you may place a jumper cap to temporarily short the two pins or use a metal object like a screwdriver to touch the two pins for a few seconds. (You may refer to the manual about where CLR_CMOS located.) You literally touch the two pins together with a screwdriver for a few seconds. After that, BIOS reset to its default values and everything worked again.

Hope that helps.

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