Re: WinXP home safe mode help needed

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Wesley, thank you for that, you will see from my last reply that I had come
to a similar conclusion to this M/Soft Support article resolution (that I
had been unable to find myself :-( )
The difference being that apparently my BIOS does support USB devices and
has them 'enabled' and my difficulties start "before" getting into Safe Mode
rather than the articles suggestion that "once in the BIOS the keyboard
doesn't work."
Thank you again for your help with my problem
dfrog

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oo4O9qqHGHA.3056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Universal Serial Bus Devices Do Not Work in Safe Mode
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310496
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:43f0tkF1nalt9U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> dfrog <dfrog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
>> Thanks for response R McC
>> It's USB. Just been into BIOS (via msconfig etc & reboot) and Legacy USB
>> is set at 'Auto' which tells me that if there are USB devices connected
>> it
>> works but if no USB devices are connected it switches off so I have not
>> changed it.
>> If that is one thing eliminated I could still do with more help
>>
>> dfrog
>>
>>
>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:e3duxGpHGHA.2940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Which type of interface does the Keyboard receiver plug into ?
>>> (PS2/USB).
>>> If USB, then you may need to enter BIOS setup and ensure that support
>>> for
>>> USB Keyboard/Mouse or Legacy USB is enabled.
>>>
>>> "dfrog" <dfrog@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:43esa6F1n7ee0U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> I have an HP Presario desktop with Win XP home running nice and
>>>> smoothly
>>>> with no problems, except :-
>>>>
>>>> For a reason I cannot remember, last week decided to boot up into Safe
>>>> Mode, (maybe just to do it because I hadn't for a long time), but
>>>> failed. I have since then also failed to find a solution myself, lots
>>>> of
>>>> information available for booting up into Safe Mode, but not able to
>>>> find any info when that doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> On the initial screen I have the options of 'Esc' for Boot Menu - 'F1'
>>>> for Setup - 'F10' for System recovery (none of these work)
>>>> Next screen lets me choose 'Windows Recovery Console' or 'Boot into
>>>> Windows' (change selection with up/down arrows - doesn't work) or
>>>> 'Press
>>>> F8' for Safe Mode (doesn't work)
>>>>
>>>> Windows boots up just fine. If I then go to 'msconfig' select the
>>>> BOOT.INI tab, select /SAFEBOOT and Minimal, select 'restart' Windows
>>>> shutsdown and restarts in Safe Mode OK.
>>>>
>>>> No matter whether I select 'Normal Startup' or 'Selective Startup' in
>>>> msconfig, on the next & successive boots I'm back to No 'Esc' 'F1'
>>>> 'F10'
>>>> or 'F8' options again, and my head is begining to hurt now !
>>>>
>>>> In case I have a need to do any of this in the future, I'd really like
>>>> to feel that I could, and so I need to fix it.
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate some help at this stage............
>>>>
>>>> dfrog
>>>>
>>>> PS having read this, it makes me think that maybe my keyboard
>>>> (fairly
>>>> new Belkin cordless and working perfectly well to my knowledge) is not
>>>> operational at this stage (but I'm sure that it used to be)
>


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