Techie Call!!

[NothingButTruth]

I need some help - this is something that I've never encountered before, and I hope that there is at least one other techie soul here who may have heard of this.

I'm presently running from a Windows XP Live CD. For those who don't know what that means, my OS right now is not running from the HD, it is running from a CD that has loaded Windows into RAM.

I'm stuck with this right now because when I log in to windows on my HD Windows intallation, everything is fine - until I touch the keyboard. At that point, Windows just freezes - no blue screen of death, no warnings, no alerts, nothing. It just freezes, and I have to shut down the system. There a two accounts on this system, mine and my husband's, though his is a very limited account. It does not matter which account I log into, the same thing happens.

I know that it has to be a Windows issue, because everything is fine right now, using the Live CD. It's just so very slow.

I cannot do a system restore, because my account has a password at log in, which freezes windows as soon as I touch the keyboard. I can't do it from my husband's account, because his is not an admin account.

I just thought that I would throw this out before I go to the length of wiping my drive and reinstalling Windows.

Help??

 

[NorCalMan2008]

I need some help - this is something that I've never encountered before, and I hope that there is at least one other techie soul here who may have heard of this.

I'm presently running from a Windows XP Live CD. For those who don't know what that means, my OS right now is not running from the HD, it is running from a CD that has loaded Windows into RAM.

I'm stuck with this right now because when I log in to windows on my HD Windows intallation, everything is fine - until I touch the keyboard. At that point, Windows just freezes - no blue screen of death, no warnings, no alerts, nothing. It just freezes, and I have to shut down the system. There a two accounts on this system, mine and my husband's, though his is a very limited account. It does not matter which account I log into, the same thing happens.

I know that it has to be a Windows issue, because everything is fine right now, using the Live CD. It's just so very slow.

I cannot do a system restore, because my account has a password at log in, which freezes windows as soon as I touch the keyboard. I can't do it from my husband's account, because his is not an admin account.

I just thought that I would throw this out before I go to the length of wiping my drive and reinstalling Windows.

Help??

NBT

Are you using a wired keyboard or a wireless connection - if wireless please check and see that the Ghz is not clashing with something else like a phone may be ...

My .02

 

[NothingButTruth]

NBT

Are you using a wired keyboard or a wireless connection - if wireless please check and see that the Ghz is not clashing with something else like a phone may be ...

My .02

No, wired. I have no wireless devices at all - even my modem and router are hard wired.

This is just so strange. I've run a virus scan with three different AV programs from this Windows CD, and they all come back clean.

 

[Guest]

I have no idea

But you might want to post this in the 'How To' forum...... they may well be able to help in there.

 

[LustfulOne50]

I need some help - this is something that I've never encountered before, and I hope that there is at least one other techie soul here who may have heard of this.

I'm presently running from a Windows XP Live CD. For those who don't know what that means, my OS right now is not running from the HD, it is running from a CD that has loaded Windows into RAM.

I'm stuck with this right now because when I log in to windows on my HD Windows intallation, everything is fine - until I touch the keyboard. At that point, Windows just freezes - no blue screen of death, no warnings, no alerts, nothing. It just freezes, and I have to shut down the system. There a two accounts on this system, mine and my husband's, though his is a very limited account. It does not matter which account I log into, the same thing happens.

I know that it has to be a Windows issue, because everything is fine right now, using the Live CD. It's just so very slow.

I cannot do a system restore, because my account has a password at log in, which freezes windows as soon as I touch the keyboard. I can't do it from my husband's account, because his is not an admin account.

I just thought that I would throw this out before I go to the length of wiping my drive and reinstalling Windows.

Help??

LOL. know you don't want to hear this, but you may back all fills you want to keep and registry onto another harddrive or jump. Step 2 would be to run DOS 6 and format the drive and set partitions you may want once this is done ran the Win XP Pro to install..the nice part about XP set on DOS 7 ( which by MS doesn't exist...LOL but Does) Once you install you will find you partition are now part of you new install...then put backup file and replace registry with your old one....just my idea of how to handle it quick

 

[NothingButTruth]

LOL. know you don't want to hear this, but you may back all fills you want to keep and registry onto another harddrive or jump. Step 2 would be to run DOS 6 and format the drive and set partitions you may want once this is done ran the Win XP Pro to install..the nice part about XP set on DOS 7 ( which by MS doesn't exist...LOL but Does) Once you install you will find you partition are now part of you new install...then put backup file and replace registry with your old one....just my idea of how to handle it quick

I decided to start fresh. Using Hirens Boot CD, and the diagnostics there, I could find no issues with the drive itself whatsoever. Thinking that perhaps there might be something in the master boot sector that could be causing this, (I know, but we are talking about Microsoft here), I simply moved my critical data files to the secondary HDD, and then ran Active KillDisk, which effectively gives you a factory fresh HDD when it's done. I reinstalled Win XP, and now I have the rather daunting task of reinstalling something on the order of 130GB - 140GB of software onto the machine. I'm doing the most important first, obviously.

It was just the weirdest thing I've ever seen - as long as I was only using the mouse, it was fine. Touch the keyboard, and I froze up, every time.

 

[LustfulOne50]

It was just the weirdest thing I've ever seen - as long as I was only using the mouse, it was fine. Touch the keyboard, and I froze up, every time.

It can be in the software, it sounds to like the translator chip for the keybroad where the ps-2 plugs in at for the keyboard. It could be loose or bad....Many moons ago Apple had problem with Chip Crawl, which due to the power being turn on/off causing to chip to viberate up out of it's socket.