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USB Keyboard not working (at all) during installation

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by leveille.alexandre

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Hi!

This is my first (second actually, it's a re-post because I was in the wrong section) post here, and I hope you will be able to help me

Okay, some background. I bought a PC that comes with Vista Home Premium, but I want to go back to XP until Vista is more mature. Since my only hard disk drive is SATA and I have no flopyy drive, I had to "slipstream" iastor.sys and it's friends into the CD image. That was painful, but after several attemps, I got it to work.

The problem is : Now that the setup detects my hard drive, it ask me to choose the partition I want to install XP on but my keyboard is not working.

The CD is XP Home Edition SP1A US and I believe my USB ports are 2.0. I have no PS/2 connector (I wish I had...) and my keyboard -is- working pre-setup (aka: the BIOS)

Possible solutions I can think of :
- If I use XP Pro instead, would it work? (Can I swap my XP Home's I386 folder with some XP Pro's I386 folder?)
- If I integrate SP2 too, would it work"
- Can I use WINNT.SYS (the "other" unattended file?) to ask the setup to do a completely unattended install that overwrite C: (3rd partition according to Windows Setup) ?

Will any of these work? Anyone have a better idea?

Thanks a lot!

(Note: this is a re-post, I was in the wrong section)

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by tim.mcmurray

Hey,
I have the same issue with a Dell Demension 460. I can't press enter to Install XP now.

by vincexsx

Hi all, I am also having this issue with a Dell Dimension 3100. I am trying to do a Repair with the Windows XP Home Edition CD, and after it copies over the setup files and gets to the screen where it asks you if you want to repair or install a fresh copy, my usb keyboard stops working. I tried different usg ports, and I even went into the BIOS and shut off the USB Controller to see if it would pull the drivers off the CD and still no luck. HELP!!!!!

by pcpldtech

I have slipstreamed SP2,then SP3 into XP Pro CD neither one solved the problem for me.
Still working on a solution. My install worked perfectly. My problem begins when I sysprep my machine take image and machine starts unattended install. Never picks up the keyboard or mouse again. This is strange to me because I have imaged previous machines this way and basic keyboard/mouse drivers were always installed after about a 1 minute wait time at the CTRL-ALT-Del screen. No the machines did not have PS2 plugs only USB ports, appears to be hardware function change on new machines. Mine are Optiplex 755

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