Thank you all for your great input, I will probably will have to use of of your more
disaster recovery technics.
Sorry to the others for this very out of topic, the OT faded away...
Kind regards,
Philippe Varichon
Digizone Multimedia
http://circumvista.com
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: john ellard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:35:28 +0100
>hi
>
>Seems to me the problem here is getting into the box, and the mouse driver
>has screwed up the keyboard driver too.
>
>4 suggestions:-
>
>1. Start NT in VGA mode. Sometimes this loads a minimal driver set
>which *might* help,
>
>2. Get a copy of NTFSDOS from www.winternals.com. This allows you to
>boot from a floppy and mount the NTFS volume from DOS. Once in, you can
>try to hack-out the mouse driver - find the driver files that the mouse
>wants and rename them so they fail - this should stop them loading and
>killing the keyboard. This software costs money, but it's saved my ass
>tons of times and it's a must-have. One tip with this: there's a switch to
>increase available memory (can't remember what it is) but you MUST use it
>to be able to successfully copy/rename/delete files).
>
>3. Do a parallel install of NT to the box, boot from that and resolve
>the problem on the original install in the same way as described in 2
>above. Then boot to the original NT and remove the parallel one.
>
>4. Do you have other machines on the same network?? Are they in the
>same domain/trust relationship?? If so, boot the bad machine and then
>hack-out the driver for the mouse from another host. Cripple it, then
>restart the bad machine. With luck you'll get keyboard access.
>
>Good luck!
>
>John
>
>
>
>At 17:01 19/09/00 -0600, you wrote:
>>How bout talking about this NT issue directly?
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Philippe Varichon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 4:52 PM
>>Subject: RE: Stuck at the NT Login box
>>
>>
>> > Yes, the mouse is wireless...It was working without installing the driver
>>that came with it (9.1) but then I thought that it would be a good idea to
>>update it.
>> > But what happened is that it could not update and the previous driver
>>might have been erased because it did not appeared in the "Program" menu.
>>The problem appeared then at reboot time.
>> >
>> > I also tried to plug the previous mouse (Logitech) via PS2 but the results
>>were the same.
>> > Also the space bar does not work.
>> >
>> > I do have NTFS.
>> > Can you actually insert the HD into a working NT server and recover the
>>data from it?
>> > Is it not going to conflict with the other NT OS?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > Philippe
>> >
>> >
>> > >Have you tried plugging a PS2 mouse into the box and booting in safe
>>mode?
>> > >That should get you in, at which point you should be able to "update" the
>> > >drivers for the Logitech mouse with the older version.
>> > >
>> > >Now, I have to ask in order to satisfy my own curiosity, are you running
>>a
>> > >cordless, Logitech mouse on a server? Logitech mice (and cordless mice in
>> > >general) are very definitely bad mojo.
>> > >
>> > >Benjamin S. Rogers
>> > >Web Developer, c4.net
>> > >voice: (508) 240-0051
>> > >fax: (508) 240-0057
>> > >
>> > >-----Original Message-----
>> > >From: Philippe Varichon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > >Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 5:11 PM
>> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >Subject: OT: Stuck at the NT Login box
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >My NT server (SP6) was working until I tried without success to update a
>> > >Logitech driver for a wireless mouse (NT
>> > >compatible).
>> > >
>> > >When I rebooted I could get to the login box but I could not enter a
>> > >username because I got the following error message from the
>> > >Service Control Manager: 'At least one service or driver failed during
>> > >service startup. Use event viewer to examine the event log
>> > >for details.'
>> > >The OK button on this message cannot be pressed and the 'Begin Logon' box
>> > >cannot be accessed in the backrground.
>> > >
>> > >I tried to boot with the 'Last Known Good Configuration' but it does not
>> > >work because I updated a driver not added one.
>> > >
>> > >The repair disk did not help.
>> > >
>> > >Anyone knows if there is a way around this?
>> > >And if not how can I reclaim the data on my HD? ( I have only a partial
>>Back
>> > >up...)
>> > >
>> > >Thank you a million in advance
>> > >
>> > >Philippe Varichon
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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