skymera
May 7th, 2009, 10:32 AM
Hello all :)
( Not sure where to post this. I figured i'd post on Ubuntu since i'm at college and you guys are so helpful)
Anyway long sotry short.. (I'm supposed to be doing animation so i need to be quick :P)
Yesterday on XP, there was a driver update that was showing in DriverMax (I use it because i lose track since there's so many)
I installed the driver update but it seemed to totally stop anything USB working. My mouse, keyboard. Everything stopped.
Safe mode was as bad too :(
Without hesistation i popped in the XP disc i have and performed a "Repair Install". All went well :) My mouse was working fine and keyboard worked.
Restarted -> "Windows needs to be activated".
I have no choice, if i click no, i can't login. So i click yes and all that shows up is my custom background. XP sits there doing nothing.
I have a feeling it was because my XP disc was SP2. My install was SP3. doh.
So yesterday i found out that i could get around the "Activation" by booting safe mode console and typing "explorer" to get to the desktop.
I have a couple of theories:
1. I can try and install XP SP3 from safe mode. Is it possible? Then reboot and hopefully XP will wake up and activate! (for about the 50 zillionth time) =X
2. I can try and get cmd.exe to open when i'm at the standard XP Welcome screen. That way i can run "msoobe.exe /a" manually. But i can't seem to do this one.
I tried replacting utilman.exe with cmd.exe (renaming cmd.exe to utilman.exE). This way when i press winkey+U cmd.exe should open. But it doesn't.
big boo boo :(
I've Googled loads but can't seem to find any links that aren't blocked by the college.
Time to get out Firefox portable!
Thanks :guitar:
( Not sure where to post this. I figured i'd post on Ubuntu since i'm at college and you guys are so helpful)
Anyway long sotry short.. (I'm supposed to be doing animation so i need to be quick :P)
Yesterday on XP, there was a driver update that was showing in DriverMax (I use it because i lose track since there's so many)
I installed the driver update but it seemed to totally stop anything USB working. My mouse, keyboard. Everything stopped.
Safe mode was as bad too :(
Without hesistation i popped in the XP disc i have and performed a "Repair Install". All went well :) My mouse was working fine and keyboard worked.
Restarted -> "Windows needs to be activated".
I have no choice, if i click no, i can't login. So i click yes and all that shows up is my custom background. XP sits there doing nothing.
I have a feeling it was because my XP disc was SP2. My install was SP3. doh.
So yesterday i found out that i could get around the "Activation" by booting safe mode console and typing "explorer" to get to the desktop.
I have a couple of theories:
1. I can try and install XP SP3 from safe mode. Is it possible? Then reboot and hopefully XP will wake up and activate! (for about the 50 zillionth time) =X
2. I can try and get cmd.exe to open when i'm at the standard XP Welcome screen. That way i can run "msoobe.exe /a" manually. But i can't seem to do this one.
I tried replacting utilman.exe with cmd.exe (renaming cmd.exe to utilman.exE). This way when i press winkey+U cmd.exe should open. But it doesn't.
big boo boo :(
I've Googled loads but can't seem to find any links that aren't blocked by the college.
Time to get out Firefox portable!
Thanks :guitar: