Peripherals stop working during XP install

[kahlil88]

I'm trying to do a repair install of XP Pro SP3 on someone's machine but for some reason the keyboard and mouse stop responding during the "installing devices" phase of the setup, which is awesome because shortly after this happens it asks me to locate the ATI drivers. The keyboard and mouse are both USB and this little Acer box doesn't have any PS/2 ports. Didn't see any "legacy USB" option in the BIOS...

Edited November 11, 2010 by kahlil88

[Tripredacus]

That is normal for the most part. It doesn't make sense sometimes, such as the keyboard and mouse working prior to this screen coming up. I think that Windows might actually unload the default drivers it used for your devices during install, and re-detect and try to install the ones from the installed files.