Press any key at login, mouse/keyboard freeze

[Glorfindael]

If I type my password (try to that is) the computer freezes, the cursor is still blinking but nothing comes up for my pw and the mouse no longer can move. I have pws on my admin and everything and i can't get into safemode or anything because of this. I've used another keyboard, tried usb but couldn't use it cause it wouldn't work w/o drivers or something and any other boot mode does nothing as well. I'm baffled and I can't do anything w/o someone elses comp. I've reset cmos for kicks, tried every option in my bios because thats all i can access. Any other thoughts? - seth

 

[lotharamious]

I used to have a friend who would have that problem, but I think it was addressed in a windows patch... so I'm really not sure what to tell you

 

[Glorfindael]

help please!!!

 

[Glorfindael]

heeeeeeeeeelp!

 

[Somedudenamedryan]

Can you get into the bios? If you can't then it's most likely a hardware issue. If you can then it's most likely a windows problem.

 

[Glorfindael]

yea i can get into the bios,tried every option in the bios.i madethe "ultimate boot cd" but i can't remove a login pw so i can't get into windows still. i think it may be the keyboard drivers because i installed new ones maybe a week ago.. i can't change anything in the services, msconfig etc. except for what is being used to boot the boot cd, so i have no idea how to change the drivers of the keyboard in it.. any help would be amazing

 

[Allanv]

go download this and make it a bootable cd.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/


when asked to change the password use a * this will blank out the password.

the rest is up to you

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON SCREEN CAREFULLY OR YOU WILL BREAK IT

 

[Glorfindael]

thanks much

 

[Glorfindael]

no go, tried to do itwent through it perfectly and it said read only file or w/e went intosafe mode and shut down like tutorial or w/e said, same thing, used ultimate windows boot cd, checked actual sam file and the rest of the reg files involved, none of them were set to read only... i'm pretty much sol right now..

 

[Glorfindael]

funny thing..i unplugged my keyboard so i could try to get an onscreen keyboard up at the logon screen, and now my mouse is frozen when it boots immediately..as usual i can see xp is runnin alright other than this b/c the cursor in the pw box is still blinking or w/e just now my cursor is frozen and my keyboard is unplugged...

 

[Somedudenamedryan]

So can you get into safemode?? Have you tried last known good config?? Try safemode with command prompt and then run system restore: %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe. You can always boot to the xp cd, go to recovery console and stop services through there with the listsvc and enable/disable commands. Have you tried another keyboard?? Other ports?? is there a hub in the way? Have you tried ps/2? Is this a wireless keyboard/mouse combo??

 

[Glorfindael]

its ps2 i've tried usb and everything you said there except editing the listsvc or w/e, can i change the startup programs and services? so basically yea all of that stuff... something new though, when i use a usb mouse, the keyboard doesn't freeze it, it simply won't type... odd - seth

 

[Glorfindael]

ok unable to do the system restore from command prompt (can't do it in safemode only thru a boot disk) got to the listsrv and enabled a few things on boot that i thought should do it, nothing, i have no idea what happened then. i enabled on boot thinking that would be the quickest. it was boot system or auto enable options and i did boot...any help anyone? - seth

 

[Somedudenamedryan]

Maybe a repair install?