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No response to ENTER at the "XP Home Welcome to Setup", or F3 or R

February 07th, 2010 - 02:54 pm ET by harderthanithought | Report spam
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I wiped my hard drive clean to give the PC away (using Kill Disk), and now I
am trying to reinstall the XP Home using my CD. It loads up (showing status
at the bottom of the blue screen) and then it stops at "Windows XP Home
Edition Setup" screen. It does not recognize any keyboard entries - I press
ENTER to set up XP but nothing happens. Same with R (Repair) and F3 (quit
setup). Thanks in advance!
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#1 Rich Barry
February 07th, 2010 - 05:24 pm ET | Report spam
Try going into the Bios and set at Optimum or Fail Safe.
"harderthanithought" wrote in
message news:
I wiped my hard drive clean to give the PC away (using Kill Disk), and now
I
am trying to reinstall the XP Home using my CD. It loads up (showing
status
at the bottom of the blue screen) and then it stops at "Windows XP Home
Edition Setup" screen. It does not recognize any keyboard entries - I
press
ENTER to set up XP but nothing happens. Same with R (Repair) and F3 (quit
setup). Thanks in advance!


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#2 Don Phillipson
February 08th, 2010 - 08:23 am ET | Report spam
"harderthanithought" wrote in
message news:

I wiped my hard drive clean to give the PC away (using Kill Disk), and now


I
am trying to reinstall the XP Home using my CD. It loads up (showing


status
at the bottom of the blue screen) and then it stops at "Windows XP Home
Edition Setup" screen. It does not recognize any keyboard entries - I


press
ENTER to set up XP but nothing happens. Same with R (Repair) and F3 (quit
setup). Thanks in advance!



A worn keyboard plug-in socket can cause intermittent malfunction.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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#3 David B.
February 08th, 2010 - 01:26 pm ET | Report spam
Is this a USB keyboard? If so you may need to go into BIOS setup and enable
legacy USB support.



"harderthanithought" wrote in
message news:
I wiped my hard drive clean to give the PC away (using Kill Disk), and now
I
am trying to reinstall the XP Home using my CD. It loads up (showing
status
at the bottom of the blue screen) and then it stops at "Windows XP Home
Edition Setup" screen. It does not recognize any keyboard entries - I
press
ENTER to set up XP but nothing happens. Same with R (Repair) and F3 (quit
setup). Thanks in advance!


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