New situation, not sure where I should start on this problem. Have a system on hand with a Gigabyte i845 P4 motherboard & WinXP Home, and when I get to the logon screen, I can move the mouse around all I want, but as soon as I click on the username to enter in the password, both the mouse & keyboard stop responding. The system is not locked up because hitting the power button goes through the proper shutdown procedure. This happens in safe mode as well as normal mode. I have a Gigabyte i845G P4 board on hand, but the drivers do not work out and swapping motherboards causes a crash on bootup, and thus I cannot determine if it's a bad motherboard or bad Windows configuration.
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keyboard & mouse not working
- Thread starter dakota81
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Try rebooting and use the F8 key to enter either the safe mode or a DOS mode. I just finished repairing a system just as you have described. To cut to the chase. It appears to be either a virus or Malware. If you have the skill you can use the repair feature that is inheirent to XP to try and repair your system. I was working on this particular system and things only got worrse as I tried to fix it. In the end I reinstalled XP as a clean/new install.
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