We had a lightening storm that fried our cable modem and ethernet card. After swapping and installing, I am now stuck in an XP boot loop with no response from the keyboard. I have tried all of the options I can find to get in to BIOS to boot from the CD but nothing is working. I would appreciate anyone’s advice.
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Try to enable legacy USB support. You need a PS/2 keyboard in order to get to the bios setup interface where you will have to scroll through the menus to find the appropriate setting.
I would try using a different mouse and external keyboard and see if that works… It’s possible it’s in the settings of XP but if you can’t do anything, it’s possible you might just have to use your recovery disks and restore XP.
I would try a separate keyboard and mouse first and see if that works, if not restore the OS would be my recommendation.
Restart your computer.
Wait for your BIOS to complete POST (the screen with your manufacturer logo and/or system information)
Quickly begin tapping F8 repeatedly, until you see the list of boot options.
Choose “Disable automatic restart on system failure”