While trying to get USB 2.0 going on my old A8N-SLI Premoum motherboard, I deleted all the USB controllers and HUBS from the device manager.
Before doing this, I reinstalled the chipset drivers, hoping this would fix the issue. All it did was cause the Windows XP activation alert to come up, which I ignored.
Now when I start my computer before it enters windows, the dialog box comes up asking me if I want to activate windows and that I three days to do so.
However, with Windows not loading the USB controllers, neither mouse or keyboard work so I cannot select "No" on the activation dialog box.....windows just stays at that screen.
I have tried to use an adapter to convert my mouse from USB to PS/2, but that doesn't work either. I've checked my BIOS (even loaded defaults) and nothing worked. It seems PS/2 support is not working.
I've tried using Safe Mode, but then I have to select a person to log in with, but of course, I cannot do that with both mouse and keyboard not working.
I'm out of ideas.
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