Lately, every week or so my XP Pro system freezes as soon as I hit the first key after booting. If I use only the mouse to do things, it runs well, but hitting any key immediately freezes the system and requires a cold reboot. In Device Manager, it shows the keyboard but indicates it's not working because the driver cannot be loaded or is corrupt. If I uninstall the keyboard and try to reinstall it using the New Hardware Wizard, it reports that it cannot find a driver more up-to-date than the one that's "already installed." Of course that driver is corrupt and cannot be loaded.
The ONLY solution is to use Acronis True Image to go back a few days -- i.e., restore the entire C: drive (no data is lost because that's all stored on another drive). I've run Checkdisk, and it reports no errors
WHAT could be causing this repeated corruption of the keyboard driver? Could it be a failing hard disk? Is there any way to reinstall a keyboard driver short of restoring the entire C: drive as I've been doing?? If I knew the name of all the files the XP keyboard driver uses, I could simply restore those from the True-Image backup.
The ONLY solution is to use Acronis True Image to go back a few days -- i.e., restore the entire C: drive (no data is lost because that's all stored on another drive). I've run Checkdisk, and it reports no errors
WHAT could be causing this repeated corruption of the keyboard driver? Could it be a failing hard disk? Is there any way to reinstall a keyboard driver short of restoring the entire C: drive as I've been doing?? If I knew the name of all the files the XP keyboard driver uses, I could simply restore those from the True-Image backup.