My cousin have some really strange problems with his PC. Unfortunately I can't give you the config right now, but I don't thing it matters that much (It's a shuttle thing, whith the specific little motherboard that fit in, probably fitted a P3, 1Go Ram DDR).
When the PC is switched on, there is nothing wrong with the BIOS page, and XP seems to boot normally, but it then run the session opener page with the window containing the session login and asking for the password. The first abnormal thing is that before the problem the session was logged automatically. But the real trouble is that by that moment, both the keyboard and the mouse are disabled! actually it looks just like if someone unplugged the mouse at that moment. I thought his mouse was KO, so I brang him another one which works, but it's the same thing. The keyboard works perfectly ok in the bios too.
The strange matter deepens when you boot XP in safe mode, with the exact same trouble occuring! It's like even the generic drivers used in safe mode aren't loaded for those damned mouse and keyboard (the screen is ok)...
Furthermore, I tried a system recuperation with the XP cd-rom, and after the disk loads several drivers and I pressed "R" so the system asked which session I tried to work on (there is only one so no wonder), I entered the password and validate (there is no password so no wonder too), here I did land on some prompt screen of this DOS emulation XP have , instead of the system running the recuperation... quite disturbing.
All I could do there was run an extended check disk command (CHKDSK /p), giving no probant result at all, as the HDD seems phisically OK.
So, any idea?:idea: If anyone knows a way to help he's welcome!
It seems there are new viruses for XP lately, my father suffered a similar problem two weeks ago, and at work I did encounter less dangerous, but nontheless aggrivating things like a new addware called "Ircfast", which is a pain in the ass to remove.
Anyway thank you all guys for taking time to read this!
