bfletcher24
Senior member
Ok, this is long, so please bear with me. I really need help!
On Wednesday night, I installed SP1 for my home PC (XP Pro). When I rebooted, my keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard ? PS/2) didn?t work. I shut my comp down, unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in. It still didn?t work. My USB intellimouse was working fine, however.
I went into the control panel and it was not detecting my keyboard at all. So, I brought my keyboard to work yesterday to make sure it wasn?t the keyboard. The keyboard worked fine at my work, so that ruled that out. To be on the safe side, I went out and bought 2 new keyboards ? a USB one and a cheap PS/2 one.
The PS/2 one, like my original one, also didn?t work and wasn?t being detected. On the other hand, the USB one worked fine. Not a big deal, I thought ? I figured my Keyboard port had burned out.
So, I tried to go on the internet to go to this forum, and I saw that my ISP (MSN dial up ? stop laughing ) did not dial, and went right to ?signing in?. After 5 attempts, a window popped up saying that there was no modem detected. I went into the device manager, and my modem was detected and working fine. To be sure, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Still, I got the same problem with MSN.
So after some yelling at my screen, I decided to reformat. I popped in my WINXP disk, restarted, went to my BIOS, set my first boot device to CD, etc. So when I went to ?press any key to boot from CD?, my keyboard wasn?t responding. Basically, I can hit delete to get into my BIOS, but even the delete key doesn?t work when trying to get into XP setup.
Soooo, I got to my desktop and tried to do a fresh install by clicking on the CD-ROM icon in ?My Computer?. Well, after getting to the XP setup screen, it wouldn?t let me delete the existing partition, AND it wouldn?t let me create a new one!?!?! So, I just ?repaired? my existing partition, but I am still having the same problems. I even opened up my rig to clear CMOS also (I was desperate) and as I thought, all it changed was my CMOS settings.
So in a nutshell, I can?t reformat, and I can?t activate ?system restore? because I disabled when I did my initial install. There?s nothing to restore.
What should I do? What is causing these problems? Please note ? EVERYTHING WAS FINE BEFORE I INSTALLED SP1. Are there any reports of SP1 messing things up???? Please help me, as I am losing my mind over this!
My specs ?
T-Bird 1.4GHZ
512MB PC2100 Mushkin DDR RAM
MSI MS-6380 LE Mobo
Leadtek Geforce3 TI500
DSI (creative) win fax modem
SB Live! MP3
Western Digital 5400 RPM 30 GB Hard drive
Pioneer 40x DVD-ROM SL
Plextor 24/12/32 CDRW
Netgear FA312 NIC
On Wednesday night, I installed SP1 for my home PC (XP Pro). When I rebooted, my keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard ? PS/2) didn?t work. I shut my comp down, unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in. It still didn?t work. My USB intellimouse was working fine, however.
I went into the control panel and it was not detecting my keyboard at all. So, I brought my keyboard to work yesterday to make sure it wasn?t the keyboard. The keyboard worked fine at my work, so that ruled that out. To be on the safe side, I went out and bought 2 new keyboards ? a USB one and a cheap PS/2 one.
The PS/2 one, like my original one, also didn?t work and wasn?t being detected. On the other hand, the USB one worked fine. Not a big deal, I thought ? I figured my Keyboard port had burned out.
So, I tried to go on the internet to go to this forum, and I saw that my ISP (MSN dial up ? stop laughing ) did not dial, and went right to ?signing in?. After 5 attempts, a window popped up saying that there was no modem detected. I went into the device manager, and my modem was detected and working fine. To be sure, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Still, I got the same problem with MSN.
So after some yelling at my screen, I decided to reformat. I popped in my WINXP disk, restarted, went to my BIOS, set my first boot device to CD, etc. So when I went to ?press any key to boot from CD?, my keyboard wasn?t responding. Basically, I can hit delete to get into my BIOS, but even the delete key doesn?t work when trying to get into XP setup.
Soooo, I got to my desktop and tried to do a fresh install by clicking on the CD-ROM icon in ?My Computer?. Well, after getting to the XP setup screen, it wouldn?t let me delete the existing partition, AND it wouldn?t let me create a new one!?!?! So, I just ?repaired? my existing partition, but I am still having the same problems. I even opened up my rig to clear CMOS also (I was desperate) and as I thought, all it changed was my CMOS settings.
So in a nutshell, I can?t reformat, and I can?t activate ?system restore? because I disabled when I did my initial install. There?s nothing to restore.
What should I do? What is causing these problems? Please note ? EVERYTHING WAS FINE BEFORE I INSTALLED SP1. Are there any reports of SP1 messing things up???? Please help me, as I am losing my mind over this!
My specs ?
T-Bird 1.4GHZ
512MB PC2100 Mushkin DDR RAM
MSI MS-6380 LE Mobo
Leadtek Geforce3 TI500
DSI (creative) win fax modem
SB Live! MP3
Western Digital 5400 RPM 30 GB Hard drive
Pioneer 40x DVD-ROM SL
Plextor 24/12/32 CDRW
Netgear FA312 NIC
