XP won't boot unless PS2 mouse attached.

[Hadsus]

I've spent hours on this and am still stumped. See system in sig (running xp home).

System worked fine for the six weeks I've had it till now. When I boot up the system freezes on the windows boot up screen with the horizontal blue bars. They freeze at a certain point. I can boot up in safe mode.

I've removed the usb hub with no keyboard or mouse attached and it still hangs. Only when I plug the ps2 mouse does the computer boot normally. So now I have two mice attached....the ps2 which sits to the side and the mx700 which I've used for a couple of years now (the mx700 is what I'm using now). I've addressed everything in the event viewer.....a couple of minor things that I fixed but it doesn't fix the problem.

I've scrubbed the registry with CCleaner. Ran nod32, adaware, spybot, reinstalled video drivers and ran MS beta spyware cleaner. Any ideas? Any other info that could be helpful to this?

 

[Navid]

You say it worked fine till now.
Do you know what changed that caused it to fail now?

This could be way off!
But, it takes 2 minutes to try.
Try enabling legacy USB support in your BIOS and try again.

 

[Hadsus]

Already enabled. What's so frustrating about this is that there is absolutely nothing on the Internet that I can find that is similar to the problem I'm having. And I've spent hours upon hours trying to fix this.

 

[lyssword]

try enabling usb and disable ps2 in bios

 

[DanTMWTMP]

dang, I knew a person who's board was like this too, except he didn't get to the point where the "windows xp" boot screen will come up. It will just hang right before it should pop up. We found out it was his board after we tested it w/ another board w/ the same brand/model number. donno, upgrade the bios/reset your bios to factory settings.

 

[Hadsus]

Yeah, I'm beginning to think this is a hardware or mainboard issue. I'm not crazy about messing around with bios and other higher end stuff since I didn't build this rig but I may need to. ABS Computers built this for me and their customer support is pretty pathetic. Their solution to everything is to send the machine back or reinstall the OS. They don't much care about troubleshooting problems. Had I know they were gonna be like this I would have built it myself.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Hadsus
Yeah, I'm beginning to think this is a hardware or mainboard issue. I'm not crazy about messing around with bios and other higher end stuff since I didn't build this rig but I may need to. ABS Computers built this for me and their customer support is pretty pathetic. Their solution to everything is to send the machine back or reinstall the OS. They don't much care about troubleshooting problems. Had I know they were gonna be like this I would have built it myself.

just reset the CMOS.

 

[Hadsus]

Is there a way of doing this without messing with jumper switches and whatnot.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Hadsus
Is there a way of doing this without messing with jumper switches and whatnot.

It's the only way to reset the CMOS. Pretty standard procedure, and it's the first thing you do when you notice a hardware problem.

 

[John]

FWIW the clear cmos location is right next to the cmos battery.

 

[dennilfloss]

Your mainboard manual should have the instructions on which jumper to use. I find that bent tweezers help a lot if it's in an awkward place on the mobo.

 

[compuwiz1]

Do you normally run a USB mouse?

Your hub or mouse could be bad, as well.

I, personally would pepare a list of all drivers in your system, get new copies of all of them, then uninstall every major device. Be sure the ones you really want to use are the only ones plugged in.

Now, having uninstalled all devices, and with a fresh new disc with all your drivers on it, simply reboot.

Your devices should be all detected and the drivers on your disc reinstalled, one by one.

This should eliminate all driver problems, and bring you back to the hardware. The best case scenario would be that it will all work, doing as I stated above. If not, you have hardware issues.

 

[Navid]

When you exit the BIOS, you have the option of saving changes and exiting or discarding changes and exiting or loading the default settings.
If you load the default settings, everything in the BIOS will be set to what it would be set to if you reset the CMOS unless you have flashed the BIOS.
Even then, resetting to default should fix all the problems unless you have flashed to a wrong BIOS.

So, I don't think resetting the CMOS is necessary.

 

[Hadsus]

Some good ideas.....I think going back to default bios settings is the most painless at the moment. I'm assuming the default settings won't compromise performance in any way. I don't know what ABS does to tweak them. I'll have to DL the mainboard manual because they didn't supply that to me for some fricken reason.

Re: reinstalling system drivers.....doesn't scf /scannow fix corrupt files?