YeOldeStonecat
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Thought it would simple, friend of my wife, sorta older HP...I worked on it before cuz she had some light malware, tuned it up. Called with problems about computer shutting down a few times a day, illegal operation...would like to report to microsoft, etc.
Sounded like a piece of cake...I planned at being at my office all day doing other stuff.
Put up on my bench...plug in kb, mouse, video...fire up...gets to the WinXP Home profile screen where you can click her name or her hubbies name..and that's it. My mouse or keyboard don't appear to load.
Power cycle...I note that hitting the power button makes the computer gently "power down". So it was not hard locked.
Try again...no luck. Notice that mouse lights up during POST and first part of BIOS...but light goes out when Windows starts booting up.
Keyboard remains lit up during entire time...but no response when at Windows login.
Keyboard functions enough to get into BIOS and navigate the BIOS menu.
Notice when browsing the drive, had C:\Found.001 dated 05 of this year...so figured HDD failing. Cloned to new HDD. Still same symptom.
Scanned HDD....no malware found yet.
Boot from another OS CD...and keyboard and mouse work perfectly. So it's not a hardware issue.
Regardless, tried many other mice...work great outside of that Windows install, but not in it.
Recalled she had Kaspersky before switching to McCrapee a month ago, remember thread here about Kas knocking out upperfilter registry entries...so I opened up the users registry and all those looked fine.
(the whole downgrade from Kaz to McCrapee is a whole 'nother joke)
Copied in fresh hccoin.dll and usbhub.cyc and usbehci.sys and usbport.sys from known good working healthy XP rig to Windows\system32 and windows\drives. Still no love.
So much for a quick favor....
running out of ideas.....
manual registry restore I suppose is next....
Looking in the RUN section...was filled..but with the usual harmless stuff.
Sounded like a piece of cake...I planned at being at my office all day doing other stuff.
Put up on my bench...plug in kb, mouse, video...fire up...gets to the WinXP Home profile screen where you can click her name or her hubbies name..and that's it. My mouse or keyboard don't appear to load.
Power cycle...I note that hitting the power button makes the computer gently "power down". So it was not hard locked.
Try again...no luck. Notice that mouse lights up during POST and first part of BIOS...but light goes out when Windows starts booting up.
Keyboard remains lit up during entire time...but no response when at Windows login.
Keyboard functions enough to get into BIOS and navigate the BIOS menu.
Notice when browsing the drive, had C:\Found.001 dated 05 of this year...so figured HDD failing. Cloned to new HDD. Still same symptom.
Scanned HDD....no malware found yet.
Boot from another OS CD...and keyboard and mouse work perfectly. So it's not a hardware issue.
Regardless, tried many other mice...work great outside of that Windows install, but not in it.
Recalled she had Kaspersky before switching to McCrapee a month ago, remember thread here about Kas knocking out upperfilter registry entries...so I opened up the users registry and all those looked fine.
(the whole downgrade from Kaz to McCrapee is a whole 'nother joke)
Copied in fresh hccoin.dll and usbhub.cyc and usbehci.sys and usbport.sys from known good working healthy XP rig to Windows\system32 and windows\drives. Still no love.
So much for a quick favor....
running out of ideas.....
manual registry restore I suppose is next....
Looking in the RUN section...was filled..but with the usual harmless stuff.
