Okay; I saw this the other day. Three machines wouldn't recognize kb or mice. Try updating the vid card. The machines I had worked fine until I started doing the windows updates.
I ended up rolling them back to a restore point before the updates. I updated the video card and then reapplied the updates and viola! On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay… this has stumped me for two day. > > > > XP machine. Windows does not recognize the keyboard (PS2 or USB). > > > > I can use the keyboard to access BIOS, but not safe mode or windows. The > keyboard does work in other workstations without any issues. Both USB and > PS/2 mice work. I can log on via remote desktop and device manager lists > the keyboard. I have uninstalled the driver and restart the machine, but > still no dice. When I log back on via remote desktop, I can see that windows > installed the driver again. > > > > Event viewer is useless. > > > > I copied over, from another XP machine, the i8042prt.sys and kbdclass.sys.. > still nothing > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > Jacob > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
