Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

Lawmanxxx

Lawmanxxx

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After running a clean-up utility on my older computer (700mhz Celeron) I rebooted and when Windows opened I had absolutely no use of my keyboard and mouse. The mouse is a Microsoft Optical and the keyboard is a Compaq. The mouse connects to the keyboard through a USB port, then the keyboard to the tower through another USB. I have tried connecting through one of the other USB ports, rebooting several times, and have even tried using a serial port adapter with no results. It simply will not recognize any USB hardware. The computer reboots normally but without any input device I can't start up in Safe Mode or even reformat the hard drive, for that matter.
Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem?
 
Has your BIOS support for USB keyboard? If yes, then check if it's enabled.
Have you tried another keyboard/mouse on this computer?
 
How do I navigate in the BIOS without a keyboard? The only other keyboard that I have access to requires CD driver support to install. It's like having a car that won't start that you have to get to the shop... but you can't because it won't start!
Do you think booting with the start disk would help?
 
How do I navigate in the BIOS without a keyboard?
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Touché... :)

But you could reset the BIOS settings to its defaults without a keyboard: using the BIOS-reset jumper or just taking out the CMOS battery...
 
Well... In frustration I booted up again and plugged everything in as it was before and it worked. Go figure! The only thing that I did not mention in my original post was that I was cleaning up after installing Windows Service Pack 2. It's possible that there were a few bugs at work!!!
Anyway, Thanx for responding to my post.
-Lawmanxxx


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How do I navigate in the BIOS without a keyboard?
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That's not a windows problem but a hardware problem :)

Well... In frustration I booted up again and plugged everything in as it was before and it worked. Go figure! The only thing that I did not mention in my original post was that I was cleaning up after installing Windows Service Pack 2. It's possible that there were a few bugs at work!!!
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Interesting this is the 2nd hardware problem ive encountered from SP2 .... odd.
 
Perhaps but they do have hardware repercussions (which is something that should never happen)
 
It's much easier to write soft for a standard hardware (i.e. Mac) than make a program that runs (almost) exactly the same on different hardwares.
So Microsoft does a hell of a job...
The only problem is that their marketing department have priority over the quality control and sometimes soft is lauched before intensive testing.
 
well, I have read this thread, b/c my Wins 98 SE machine has done this... sometimes, just randomly, the mouse and keyboard decide to not work... especially after they've been sitting on for awhile... I even replaced the dang power supply b/c I thought that might be the problem... the power supply was going bad, but didn't solve the problem...
 
lawman

I got the same exact problem did you resolve your keyboard problem my mouse works but if I touch a key it jams up the only thing I havent tried is enableing from the bios...please write and tell me what you did

assassin
 
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