1/20/2024 0 Comments Instal the new Paste Wizard![]() Obviously at some point in time over the past several years, a setting got changed to make Windows always prompt me when it detects new hardware. And the keyboard and mouse drivers are the generic ones at that (but like I said, those are irrelevant since the drivers for the ports that they are connected to are not yet installed). They are drivers that come with Windows-as the drivers for CPU, RAM, IDE controller, etc. They are not even fancy, proprietary, third-party, or unsigned drivers. I tried mounting the SOFTWARE and SYSTEM hives under Windows 7 in order to manually set the "unsigned drivers warning" to ignore (using both of the driver-signing policy settings that I found references to). I even tried a serial mouse, but to no avail-again, it does work in DOS, 7, etc., but not XP because it doesn't have the serial port driver installed. Unfortunately I cannot click Next since the keyboard and mouse won't work yet because the motherboard drivers (for the PS/2 or USB ports) are not yet installed. Whenever I try to boot XP (in normal or safe mode), I get a bunch of balloons popping up for all the new hardware detected, and a New Hardware Found Wizard for Processor (obviously it has to install drivers for the lowest-level components on up). I knew beforehand that it would be a challenge to get Windows to boot and install drivers for the new hardware (particularly since the foundational components are new), but I am completely unable to even attempt to get through the work of installing drivers for things like the video card because the keyboard and mouse won't work (they do work, in the BIOS screen, in DOS mode, in Windows 7, in XP's boot menu, etc., just not in Windows XP itself). I put my old hard-drive and sound-card in the new system, and connected my old keyboard and mouse (the rest of the components-CPU, RAM, mobo, video card-are from the new system). My motherboard finally died after the better part of a decade, so I bought a used system.
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