Re: help needed with input problems

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From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:40:19 -0500

Try an different keyboard and mouse. 

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"NikkoW" <nwoollard@NOSPAMrogers.com> wrote in message 
news:D2A3d.7938$7s01.3891@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
| Hi, all. I hope someone can help me.
|
| I have an older computer (MSI-6198, 256Mb RAM, standard 
mouse & keyboard)
| upon which I wished to install WinXP.
|
| First, I updated the BIOS and then installed WinXP Home. I 
then installed
| the SP2 upgrade overnight and all other MS OS patches. The 
installation
| seemed to go flawlessly.
|
| This morning as I was in the middle of reviewing the 
results, the mouse and
| keyboard locked up; the computer was working but I 
couldn't input anything.
| I did a hard restart and, once at the Welcome/Login 
screen, I noticed the
| same problem. I then pulled the power plug and unplugged 
and replugged the
| mouse and keyboard. Upon power up, I noticed the keyboard 
was still not
| working but the mouse was. I clicked on my account button 
to login but, upon
| clicking, the mouse stopped working...I can't tell if the 
computer is
| frozen.
|
| This is my daughter's computer and I have noticed her in 
the past fiddling
| with the keyboard plug but she never mentioned a problem 
to me. It turns
| out, under Win98, the keyboard would very occasionally 
stop working. The
| solution was to shut down, unplug and replug the keyboard, 
and start up
| again. It was very occasional and couldn't be reproduced.
|
| Now I am hard down.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Nick
|
|

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