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April 22nd, 2010, 09:12 AM
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USB mouse problem
I have encountered the USB mouse of death!
The machine is a 2.17 GHz single core with 1.5Gb of RAM and a single 160Mb PATA drive running Vista Home Premium SP2.
I connected the USB mouse and keyboard from a nearby XP Pro SP3 box and tried to boot. At first it wouldn't, then I got to the BIOS screen that gave me a hard drive error message.
I was contemplating taking out the HDD and slaving it to another machine to run diagnostics, but decided to use Hiren's boot CD instead.
I got to the Hiren's screen and realised that neither the mouse nor keyboard were working..........I tried different USB slots with no effect.
OK, I thought, I will try PS2, and disconnected the mouse, at which point the keyboard numlock light came on????????????????
I attached a PS2 mouse and rebooted and the machine went into Windows just fine..............there is nothing wrong with the HDD!!!!!
I have not seen anything like this before, but have made a mental note to check the boot with all USB devices disconnected in future. In this case it took me to the Windows login screen.
It would have been a waste of money to buy a new HDD and go through reinstalling the software.
I know the mouse worked on the XP box, but haven't tried a different USB one on the Vista machine yet.
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