This is really odd. I have a XP 64-bit edition computer that I need to downgrade because a new $1000 all-in-one machine from HP doesn’t have all-in-one drivers for x64 (that’s what I get for letting her pick her own printer). Even though HP has been promising these drivers for going on a year now they have yet to materialize.
Anyway, I try to boot up using another Dell OEM XP SP2 CD (this machine is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with a Pentium Dual-Core processor and 2 MB of RAM). Everything seems to go smoothly until I get to the first selection screen. That’s when my keyboard goes dead. Every other USB device works except for the keyboard. To make matters worse this machine doesn’t have a PS/2 port.
I try to take the long way around. I downgraded to Windows 2000 instead (it let me do it just fine) and then tried to upgrade to XP. The same thing happened.
Has anyone else “experienced” (heh) this? Unfortunately I won’t be able to try an XP x64 reinstall until tomorrow so I don’t know if the x64 CD will give me similar or better results (which still doesn’t matter since what I really want to install is XP Pro).
