Hello,
I'm Gary. I've been lurking about attempting to find a solution to a problem. I like Knoppix. It's the most impessive OS I've played with lately. The CD was delivered and put to a stick that boots fine on my old POS laptop. I've tweaked the bios on this new POS to allow legacy booting. The disc works fine on this Win 8.1 Acer T3-600, but the stick does not. I seem to have a keyboard right up until the password and then no glory. No KB response. It just waits for a password. Hard boot. Start over.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 8030
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at f7d20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at f7d3c000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 8000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f7d00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at f7d39000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at f080 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f7d38000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
Memory at f7d30000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f7c00000-f7cfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f7d37000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a4) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation B75 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
I/O ports at f0d0 [size=8]
I/O ports at f0c0 [size=4]
I/O ports at f0b0 [size=8]
I/O ports at f0a0 [size=4]
I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
Memory at f7d36000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 063d
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at f7d35000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at f040 [size=32]

03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 6621
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at f7c80000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k

It's a PNY 32 stick and a new fangled, 50 dollar, solar powered logitech keyboard. This is being written while accessing the forum through Ice Weasel(cute), operating on the aforementioned kb, on the Acer, from the Knoppix disc. The stick works fine on the old Dell Laptop. I'm thinking USB conflict? Any clues?

I'm studying for my A+, am on the Chancellor's list, and have 40 years computer experience. Why do I still feel stupid?
Don't answer that.

I did see some others with the issue but not any tangible solutions. Sorry if it's been covered back in the dark ages.

Thanks,
gpearman