WinXP HID Devices gone! no mouse or keyboard!

[dencorso]

No. If you're using the official intel driver, both EHCI and XHCI handoff should be kept activated.
I'll post a possible workaround for your problem in a few minutes.

[dencorso]

Here it is:
Extract uglykludge.reg into C:\Windows.
Create a new shortcut named kbdmseback.lnk on the desktop, give it as target:
C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT.EXE /S C:\WINDOWS\uglykludge.reg
and set it to run minimized.
Move kbdmseback.lnk to the startup folder.

Reboot. Do the mouse and kbd get reinstalled automatically after reboot?

uglykludge.7z

[Damnation]

I'll get back to you a bit later and let you know if it works or not. I'm off to bed for now.

p.s. is there an alternative USB driver I might be able to try and see if it fixes this?

[dencorso]

It's... complicated. Officially: not. But I see in your case maybe an opportunity for ust to pursue developing one. I'll tell you later.

[Damnation]

I have tried your fix, unfortunately it did not work

[Dibya]

29 minutes ago, Damnation said:

I have tried your fix, unfortunately it did not work

Bit confused . My friend has GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK runs both XP and 7 with out any problem.

14 hours ago, dencorso said:

No. If you're using the official intel driver, both EHCI and XHCI handoff should be kept activated.
I'll post a possible workaround for your problem in a few minutes.

My friend  intel have not made any usb 3.0 driver for XHCI for xp

[Damnation]

I've found a temporary fix

boot XP

remote desktop into XP

open command prompt

shutdown -r

press f12 rapidly before anything boots

select XP drive

problem returns when i boot win10/linux then return to XP, must repeat procedure to get mouse/keyboard back

[dencorso]

You said:

On 12/26/2016 at 10:24 AM, Damnation said:

I think I might have figured out what is happening, but not how to fix it

I backed up the mouse and keyboard registry entries, restored them through remote desktop, then restarted, it works again until i leave XP then I have to restore again

[...]

so I said:

16 hours ago, dencorso said:

Here it is:
Extract uglykludge.reg into C:\Windows.
Create a new shortcut named kbdmseback.lnk on the desktop, give it as target:
C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT.EXE /S C:\WINDOWS\uglykludge.reg
and set it to run minimized.
Move kbdmseback.lnk to the startup folder.

Reboot. Do the mouse and kbd get reinstalled automatically after reboot?

uglykludge.7z

and now you say:

3 hours ago, Damnation said:

I have tried your fix, unfortunately it did not work

so I say: it makes no sense! It either worked before and again or didn't both times. It cannot have worked once then not worked once. No way! BTW, it strangely reminds me of a Chewbacca Defense.

[Dibya]

I am glad you got your XP to work

[Damnation]

not really, it's only temporary though, and i need remote desktop to do it

I know this makes no sense, that's why I'm asking for help with this

[dencorso]

With all due respect:
My kludge is just both regs you posted combined.
Machines are consistent: the same actions always result in the same results... this is not quantum computing.
Moreover, 2 *fully* independent actions can be performed in any order and must lead to the same final result. Always.
When the order matters, the actions are not *fully* independent.
Therefore, in RL, when 2 fully independent actions lead to different results it must be due to pebcak.
Revise what you're doing carefully!!!
If your performing the same actions don't lead to the same results *always*, no troubleshooting can ever succeed.

[Damnation]

all i'm doing is installing XP, what else can i do?

[dencorso]

4 hours ago, Damnation said:

all i'm doing is installing XP, what else can i do?

All our crystall balls are out tuning, and the shop they're in is closed for the holidays till next year.
So a good anamnesis is in order. For starters, which processor is your machine running on?

On 12/24/2016 at 10:53 PM, Damnation said:

I recently reinstalled XP on my machine and it was working fine up until just yesterday.

It was working fine since when? It cannot be much long, since the Z97 was released on March 2014, and the GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK must be from somewhat later...
Then again why did you reinstall? If it was working fine, you had no need to reinstall. So... what happened? I mean, what happened in the days just preceding
the 1st  disappearance of the mouse and KBD

On 12/24/2016 at 10:53 PM, Damnation said:

The mouse and keyboard have disappeared from my device manager, I'm trying to figure out how I can reinstall them. - The mouse/KB are working fine when i boot windows 10.

How have you set your multibooting rig? Describe in detail the chainload sequence and partition layout. And for how long does the machine have 10? Which 10? Did it have 7 oe 8.x before? Whence Remote Desktop?

[Damnation]

It's running an i7-4790 cpu

my mistake when i wrote "reinstall", I meant "install", this machine hasn't had XP on it before now. It originally shipped with 8.1 pro and is now with win10 pro

I have 2 seperate internal SSDs, one with win10, one with XP, also an external USB with ubuntu

[dencorso]

Good! Now we're going somewhere!

So: 8.1 to 10 cannot boot from MBR, while XP cannot usually use UEFI. IIRR, that is an officially insoluble problem (by design), which begs the question: How have you set your multibooting rig? Describe in detail the chainload sequence and partition layout.