Hello all,
I'm hoping someone can give me some advice for next steps to get my keyboard working.
I've read a few posts here and everywhere on the web but so far I've had no success.
Here's the symptoms:
-keyboard works in bios, windows recovery/setup, at the boot menu prompt etc.. but upon loading windows the keyboard is completely unresponsive at the logon screen
I've tried:
-a different keyboard
-unplugging everything but monitor and keyboard
-checking BIOS settings (nothing that refers to mouse) -tried turning off USB controller, there is a setting for the ps/2 port, it just says auto and then upon selecting it shows the irq setting which is not changable
-booting in safe mode (still cant logon when prompted)
-remote desktop not running so I can't logon that way
-full windows repair
-FIXMBR - repaired master boot record
-ran CHKDSK /r from recovery console - it reported it found and fixed some errors on the disk
Other details: ps/2 keyboard, usb mouse, xp home, was sp3 but now after repair its sp1
I'm still left with an unresponsive keyboard at logon. It's so frustrating! The only thing I can think to try left is a USB keyboard, but I fear that won't fix it. I'm hoping there is a magic file i can copy from the xp cd into the system that has become corrupt.
Any help very much appreciated.
I'm hoping someone can give me some advice for next steps to get my keyboard working.
I've read a few posts here and everywhere on the web but so far I've had no success.
Here's the symptoms:
-keyboard works in bios, windows recovery/setup, at the boot menu prompt etc.. but upon loading windows the keyboard is completely unresponsive at the logon screen
I've tried:
-a different keyboard
-unplugging everything but monitor and keyboard
-checking BIOS settings (nothing that refers to mouse) -tried turning off USB controller, there is a setting for the ps/2 port, it just says auto and then upon selecting it shows the irq setting which is not changable
-booting in safe mode (still cant logon when prompted)
-remote desktop not running so I can't logon that way
-full windows repair
-FIXMBR - repaired master boot record
-ran CHKDSK /r from recovery console - it reported it found and fixed some errors on the disk
Other details: ps/2 keyboard, usb mouse, xp home, was sp3 but now after repair its sp1
I'm still left with an unresponsive keyboard at logon. It's so frustrating! The only thing I can think to try left is a USB keyboard, but I fear that won't fix it. I'm hoping there is a magic file i can copy from the xp cd into the system that has become corrupt.
Any help very much appreciated.
