After XP-H upgrade, neither keyboard nor mouse work

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Kevin M.

After upgrading W98SE to XP Home, the upgrade seemed to
work fine, but on the user-setup start-up (prompt for
name of user, administrator password probably), I
discovered that neither the keyboard nor mouse were
working in Windows, but I see the keyboard still works on
the BIOS setup, etc.

So, I couldn't answer the prompts, nor could I get
Windows to recognize F8 for a Safe mode boot, so I could
attempt the most generic mouse and keyboard settings.

Any ideas on either updating a .ini file (for example) to
force a Safe mode boot? Or any other guidance for
proceeding? It's seems like a dead end when neither
input method works!
Thanks
-Kevin
 
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I would probally get a old PS2 keyboard and plug that in just to finish the
setup,
I had that problem before once too, and that was the workaround i used.

Kevin M. said:
After upgrading W98SE to XP Home, the upgrade seemed to
work fine, but on the user-setup start-up (prompt for
name of user, administrator password probably), I
discovered that neither the keyboard nor mouse were
working in Windows, but I see the keyboard still works on
the BIOS setup, etc.

So, I couldn't answer the prompts, nor could I get
Windows to recognize F8 for a Safe mode boot, so I could
attempt the most generic mouse and keyboard settings.

Any ideas on either updating a .ini file (for example) to
force a Safe mode boot? Or any other guidance for
proceeding? It's seems like a dead end when neither
input method works!
Thanks
-Kevin
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the most generic
mouse and keyboard, but the keyboard doesn't respond in
Windows for even a moment. Is there perhaps another way
to force a safe-boot or should I go down the path of re-
installing XP (after booting to the installation CD)?

Thanks for the help.
-Kevin
 
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