Mouse and Keyboard disaabled - HOW TO RECOVER

[mark]

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Hi,
Using Windows NT, I accidently disabled my mouse and
Keyboard under Control Panel / Devices.
Now that the PC has restarted, I do not have mouse or
keyboard access.

Anyone know of a quick fix?

Please e-mail me with solution.

(Would perfer not to have to do a registry rebuild, and I
do not have a Emergency Recover Disk (ERD)

mivany@ruttertech.com

Thank you

 

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Mark

I suppose that it is the i8042 device that has been disabled. If it is you
will need to install another NT4 on your system, and then change the
startup value in your first NT installation registry using regedt32.

After installing a second NT follow this description:

1. Start regedt32
2. Go to the window "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine"
3. Click on the root entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
4. Select "Registry\Load hive..." from the menu
5. Browse to %systemroot%\system32\config of your failing NT
6. Select the file "system"
7. Type "Test" in next window and the hive will be loaded as "Test".
8. Check what ControlSet is current in Test\Select\Current
9. Browse to the correct ControlSet
10. Find Test\SYSTEM\ControlSet00x\Services\i8042prt (where x is the number
for the correct ControlSet)
11. Change the REG_DWORD value Start to 0x1
12 Reboot to your main NT installation and see if it works.

If you have another NT/2000/XP computer on your network, you might be able
to access your failing machine over the network, and fix this from there in
a similar fashion.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking

"Mark" <mivany@ruttertech.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>Using Windows NT, I accidently disabled my mouse and
>Keyboard under Control Panel / Devices.
>Now that the PC has restarted, I do not have mouse or
>keyboard access.
>
>Anyone know of a quick fix?
>
>Please e-mail me with solution.
>
>(Would perfer not to have to do a registry rebuild, and I
>do not have a Emergency Recover Disk (ERD)
>
>mivany@ruttertech.com
>
>Thank you
>
>

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup (More info?)

In article <a07g80hu5pbd3i3rh3nqmjd4enovs2bj8g@4ax.com>,
mvp2.REMOVE@landemoo.com says...
> Mark
>
> I suppose that it is the i8042 device that has been disabled. If it is you
> will need to install another NT4 on your system, and then change the
> startup value in your first NT installation registry using regedt32.
>
> After installing a second NT follow this description:
>
> 1. Start regedt32
> 2. Go to the window "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine"
> 3. Click on the root entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
> 4. Select "Registry\Load hive..." from the menu
> 5. Browse to %systemroot%\system32\config of your failing NT
> 6. Select the file "system"
> 7. Type "Test" in next window and the hive will be loaded as "Test".
> 8. Check what ControlSet is current in Test\Select\Current
> 9. Browse to the correct ControlSet
> 10. Find Test\SYSTEM\ControlSet00x\Services\i8042prt (where x is the number
> for the correct ControlSet)
> 11. Change the REG_DWORD value Start to 0x1
> 12 Reboot to your main NT installation and see if it works.
>
> If you have another NT/2000/XP computer on your network, you might be able
> to access your failing machine over the network, and fix this from there in
> a similar fashion.

Another option, if a bootable Win2K/XP CD is available, is to use the
Recovery Console on the CD. (Boot the CD, choose Recover, then the
recovery console. You will need the Administrator password.) You can use
the Enable command (type HELP at the command prompt) to turn the service
back on.

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