Usb mouse and keyboard not recognized windows xp

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I was given some neighbor's machine to try and fix. At first it would attempt to boot into XP and get a bluescreen, always, even with safe mode. So I boot up the OS disk and try a few things then come across the command 'fixboot' which did indeed fix the boot sector on the C drive and told me that it had been corrupted beforehand.

Now that that's solved everything boots up fine, except for one little thing. XP won't recognize my wired mouse, my wireless mouse or my wired keyboard. The mouse doesn't even look like it's getting power. Granted I haven't tried every port with the other two peripherals, but I think this speaks for itself. Any ideas? Guest Guest. Damn dell Bios, yes must be windows thing, have you tried booting into safe mode to check if Kb MSe works in ther, could be drivers?

Please please please Sep 22, 1 0 18, 0. I'm having the same problem on my friend's pc. The USB keyboard works fine in the bios but does not work inside of windows.

All we can do is press the power key to reboot. I'm not really sure how to fix this as we have no other way of reloading the drivers without a mouse and keyboard in windows. I'm having the same problem. It's with a Dell Optiplex. Can't hit cntrl-alt-delete to login to Windows XP, but keyboard and Mouse work find in bios. Have tried Dell configuration CD that tests the hardware, and no problems found.

I tried installing a PCI card with USB 2 that someone suggested on another board as maybe tricking Windows into loading drivers, but it didn't work. Also tried unplugging power and hitting power button to discharge whatever residue. Someone suggested to me to unplug power for 10 minutes and then plug back in. Articles l l. This post has been reported. If you can access Safe Mode, you are in Windows. Try a Restore Point from there.

And wired or wireless? Did you try any other options in the recovery console? Got it to work! Start the computer normally. Disclaimer: Most of the pages on the internet include affiliate links, including some on this site.