Re: Can't use mouse or keyboard

Will a repair completely replace the registry or just fix bad settings?

Mark

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The keyboard and mouse drivers are set at the following respective
locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Kbdclass
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Mouclass


Additionally the port driver entries are at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt

(The port entries could be elswhere but I rather doubt that you have a
serial mouse)

Being that the two Windows 2000 installation are on identical hardware
(there on the same computer, they have to or must be identical) the
registry entries for the three services keys mentioned should be
identical on both installations. Using Regedt32 copy the entries from
the good installation to the failed installation.

While you are in Regedt32 look at the other services in the failed
installation services key,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetnnn\Services and see if you can
recognize the entry for the camera services. If you find it verify that
the drivers are *not* set to start when the installation boots. The
drivers should have a Start value 0x3 or 0x4.

Note that the CurrentControlSet key is not a real key as such, it is
created from one of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetnnn keys
when the computer is booted. On the dormant installation you will not
see a CurrentControlSet key you will see
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001 or ControlSet002, perhaps even
an 003 set. You have to edit one of those, probably the 001 set. Look
at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select to determine which set loads
when the computer boots.

If that fails, then do as DL said, try an In-Place or repair
installation. If you are using USB mouse & keyboard it could be that
the USB stack is broken, a repair install should fix that.

John

MarkLarz wrote:

I have a problem where I can't use my mouse and keyboard from one of 2
Win2k
partitions on my machine. They work fine from the other partition. I
think
a camera driver install caused the problem. Is there any way to figure
out
exactly what went wrong and how to fix it without reinstalling Win2k?
Booting to Safe Mode doesn't work. I don't have a good registry backup.
However, I can load the hives from the failing partition's registry
using
Regedt32 - but I don't know what to look for or fix.

Thanks in advance for any good advice,
Mark




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