[Banetahtoh]

Hey guys, I have a big problem that hopefully you can help me out with. Box is in the signature.

Last night I was gaming and talking on AIM, and I realized hitting the shift keys was causing random trash characters, such as shift -> .01x etc. It also affected my volumn settings, and winamp's setting, volumn, play, back etc. I use the logitech elite keyboard with the media shortcuts right on it, so I think that might be what it was changing. MX510 mouse. I looked online, and read that It could either be the accessability options on my computer being set accidentally to shortcut Shift. So I went to accessability options, turned them all on, apply, then off, apply.

The other suggestion was a virus, so I started to run a virus scan but the box crashed. I logged back on but shift was still causing its problem. I rebooted again, and now after windows xp pro loads, and I try to log in, the box where you type your password when you select your username is black, and my keyboard seems to not work.

By not work I mean until windows loads I can turn the various locks on and off, f8 brings up boot menu, del brings up setup, etc. But once I get that far where I have to put my password in, I can't do anything, the lock keys dont work, and my box makes little noises when I hit any key. I can't log in safe mode either, same black boxes when I have to type my password in.

The mouse does sstill work, and I can reboot.

I opened my box up and my northbridge heatsink seems to have come off, and I don't have the tools and extra parts to p ut it back on, but to be honest, I think it's been off for a while, and I'm not sure it's related, my computer hasn't really had any heat issues that I have seen.

I set my second HDD to CS and removed the one with my OS. I *think* it maybe have win 98 on it, but when I tried to boot it up I got the "windows failed to load, please select how you want windows to continue" list, and they all just reboot the computer, in a seemingly endless cycle.

I tried a different keyboard, and that didn't do anything, and I tried loading without the keyboard plugged in and still had the same issue.

I don't have my toolkit around, I seemed to have misplaced it, and it has more thermal paste and the parts to rebuild my box, if that's what I'd have to do. Also I don't have win XP disks (I'm up at school, stuff is back home)

I'm not sure what to do, I could go shell out the money for a new set of XP pro discs, though I really cant afford it and reformate my drive and hope that works. Or I could rebuild my computer though I have no idea what could be causing this.

If this is a XP problem, then I can buy the discs, but It's last resort.

Sorry about the poor writing of this post, a bit tired, been fighting with it all night. I need it for school, and I can't even get it to log on.



Any info you need that you think would help, let me know and I'll provide it if I can. I'm using my roomates computer right now, with my box right here.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[el]

is the install really bad or just the northbridge. just put it back on and boot her up. should be fine.

[Da Whip]

See if you can boot into safe mode w/ the XP HDD. If so, uninstall the keyboard, >my computer>properties>device manager>keyboard>uninstall. reboot. Let windows load its own drivers.