hate to ask questions since i'm use to answering not asking but this has me a little stumped. Certainly behaves like a virus, but the virus scanner doesn't find anything.
few specs:
-ps2 keyboards (several tried)
-win xp
-home built pc
-AVG virus scanner updated 9/02/03
Computer's been running fine for several months, but when i restarted the other day XP didn't recognize keyboard input. Doesn't give me a error under XP, it just won't recognize any key presses starting at login. Oddly enough the cdrom drive doesn't want to work in admin either, not even the virtual cdrom drive which uses the hard drive. CDs (and virtual cd) work in guest mode, and both cdrom & keyboard are fine under device manager.
I can boot from a CD and the keyboard works fine in DOS, so I know both the drive and keyboards are working, it's just something in XP. BIOS settings look fine too.
msconfig doesn't want to work either, says XP can't find msconfig.
keyboards don't work in safe mode.
Before someone asks I managed to get into admin by logging in as guest copy-n-paste letters, switch user, then copy-paste into admin password.
Tried reinstalling xp within xp but i have to enter the key and can't do that without a keyboard. Could boot with xp cd & install but I'm worried I'd lose settings, etc.
Searched google for answers but found nothing, any suggestions? I'm going to look around the registry, I still think it's some kind of virus or program behaving like a virus within XP, just seems very odd...
few specs:
-ps2 keyboards (several tried)
-win xp
-home built pc
-AVG virus scanner updated 9/02/03
Computer's been running fine for several months, but when i restarted the other day XP didn't recognize keyboard input. Doesn't give me a error under XP, it just won't recognize any key presses starting at login. Oddly enough the cdrom drive doesn't want to work in admin either, not even the virtual cdrom drive which uses the hard drive. CDs (and virtual cd) work in guest mode, and both cdrom & keyboard are fine under device manager.
I can boot from a CD and the keyboard works fine in DOS, so I know both the drive and keyboards are working, it's just something in XP. BIOS settings look fine too.
msconfig doesn't want to work either, says XP can't find msconfig.
keyboards don't work in safe mode.
Before someone asks I managed to get into admin by logging in as guest copy-n-paste letters, switch user, then copy-paste into admin password.
Tried reinstalling xp within xp but i have to enter the key and can't do that without a keyboard. Could boot with xp cd & install but I'm worried I'd lose settings, etc.
Searched google for answers but found nothing, any suggestions? I'm going to look around the registry, I still think it's some kind of virus or program behaving like a virus within XP, just seems very odd...