Re: Help! Keyboard frozen at login screen
- From: George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:08:41 -0500
Stumbled onto a solution on Microsoft's site ... KB article 268603.
The fix that worked was the Recovery Console procedure in the middle
of the article. It gives directions to replace XP's device database
"<windir>\system32\config\system" with a saved version from
"<windir>\system32\repair".
This appears to have fixed everything though it has left me wondering.
The file from my repair directory was dated 2+ months ago and is half
the size of [broken] file in my config directory. AFAICT, all my
devices are present and working ... so I'm wondering why the broken
file was so much larger.
Anyway, thanks to all who replied.
George
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:26:51 -0500, George Neuner
<gneuner2/@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Following an application crash and a shutdown/reboot to clear up the
>mess I am unable to login because XP is no longer recognizing the
>keyboard. The network shares are available so I know the OS is
>running, but I cannot login on the console or through Remote Desktop
>[which was/is activated].
>
>The keyboard is PS/2 and works in BIOS or if I boot a DOS floppy or
>the Windows CD - so I know the hardware is ok. The mouse is USB and
>it works so I can't tell if other PS/2 devices are kaput. The system
>is XPpro sp2.
>
>Safe mode is no help ... I can't log in. I tried using the boot menu
>to revert to last working configuration, but that didn't work either -
>I tried safe mode boot first so that probably fouled me up. I also
>found an earlier post in this forum recommending using Recovery
>Console to replace KBDHID.SYS with I8042PRT.SYS. When I looked there
>was no kbdhid.sys file. I took a chance and created one but it made
>no difference.
>
>I have an emergency OS partition on the machine so I will be busy for
>a while making sure all the data is safe. I'm hoping someone here can
>lead me back to a working machine without blowing away the OS in the
>main partition and starting over as it will take me several days to
>reinstall everything.
>
>Please reply here because my email is on the cursed partition.
>
>Thanks,
>George
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