following instruction on the nVidia for upgrading the display driver,i uninstalled the current dispaly drivers. on reboot xp reports "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)". The keyboard doesnot work which means i cant logon with admin privilages. How do solve this problem. The only way i could type this message was by using the xp on screen keyboard functon.

To solve the keyboard problem, turn your PC off and unplug the keyboard, reboot to your desktop, then re-insert the keyboard, Xp will do the rest.

hi hooner, thanx for the prompt reply tried your suggestion but it didn't work...perhaps because it not a usb keyboard?

if you hit the f8 key as it loadsit should let you pick go back to last good configuration

Hello again Dave, have you tried uninstalling the keyboard through Device Manager and rebooting to see if Xp picks up on it then?

I, too, am only able to log onto a user account that is not password protected and type using this virtual KB, due to the EXACT thing you have described. I have spent the last 20 hours trying to find some answers, as well as trying to get people to understand that you CAN'T uninstall, install, or do any of the normal troubleshooting steps that requires admin account when you can't log onto an admin account cuz you don't have a keyboard!! I can't find any info on this, so feel free to correct me if need be, but i think we've got a case of the flu, and not a mild one, either. My kb driver in device mgr has sprouted a new driver file, ekomox51.sys. This is NOTa windows, nor a signed driver, and it changed even the display text, as well as the driver info to russian. I am a tech, but i know just enough about code to get me into trouble. I opened the file to view, and the english parts say this: (paraphrased) initialize, blah,blah, IO DELETE DEVICE, I/O CREATE DEVICE, ATTATCH DEVICE, CALL DRIVER, PO START NEXT POWER IRP, WRITE...NTOSKRNL.exe (uh-oh), EX RELEASE FAST MUTEX, ACQUIRE FAST MUTEX HAL.DLL SYS\PBOTKBD.DBG KBD.SYS Go figure; i thought the cold war ended... my virus defs are current, use a firewall, shut down nov 15, started up nov 16 in hacker hell. it won't allow live-update or online v scan. no error msg, just does nothing. i havent been able to find any new alerts; In checking recent norton logs, the 15th of nov, crash day, norton scan deleted two trojans: one named PWSteal.trojan, found in c:\windows\system32\drivers\KBFLTR.SYS. Since it looks like there may be tenacles attached to the ntoskrnl as well as other critical system files, i'll continue to type using my mouse. i'm off to the registry...i can't let this ruskie get the best of me. if anyone has any answers, please reply. if you think i'm chasing non-existant demons, let me know, i might even agree with you.

Did you ever solve your problem? I cannot even type control alt delete to get into my system. I tried a clean install after backing up my drive. XP wont even take the product cd key. Please help if you can. I just ghosted my drive to another for safe keeping.