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  1. December 27th, 2002, 06:49 PM #16
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    Either an XP compatibility issue, or a faulty motherboard PS/2 port.

    And what I meant was, replace it with a plain keyboard that doesn't require special drivers
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  2. December 27th, 2002, 06:58 PM #17
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    Ok
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  3. December 27th, 2002, 08:36 PM #18
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    It wouldn't let me do anything with the system file 'cause it was being used. I also notice that I do not have a system file in my temp dir, so I wouldn't have had anything to copy back anyway.

    This is very weird, how could a clean install corrupt the registry
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  4. December 28th, 2002, 04:19 PM #19
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    Does anyone think that the following article has anything to do with my problem?

    http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324754
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  6. December 28th, 2002, 05:28 PM #20
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    Start with Step3

    But Step1 could apply also.
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  7. December 28th, 2002, 07:49 PM #21
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    No luck with the Intellitype program. I guess it's a BIOS upgrade then, pretty scary stuff. Either that or do you think I should just forget it and swap my new keyboard for a USB one?
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    I notice in your original post you say you upgraded , if so do a clean install of XP - this is precisely the kind of problem that people invariably get with an upgrade install. If you did in fact do a clean install, then start over and install WinXP from scratch. Sometimes things get corrupted, and this is one of those weird ones that has that sort of smell about it!
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  9. December 28th, 2002, 08:30 PM #23
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    The first time I installed it I did the upgrade, but decided I didn't like that. So I did a clean install, but still had the problem with the keyboard at the end of the setup program. Then I did another clean install to try and fix that, but it still didn't work.
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  11. December 28th, 2002, 08:37 PM #24
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    Got another keyboard, try it. While installing. I would anyway.
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  12. December 28th, 2002, 09:08 PM #25
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    Figure this one out ...
    I decided (before I reinstall Windows) to see if my old PS/2 mouse would work. It did, and so did the keyboard???????
    So I tried my USB mouse through the PS/2 adapter and that worked also. So the keyboard works as long as there is a mouse plugged into the other PS/2 port.
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