{"id":74,"date":"2005-09-20T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-20\/74"},"modified":"2005-09-20T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T07:25:35","slug":"usb-mouse-hangup-during-windows-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-20\/74","title":{"rendered":"USB Mouse Hangup During Windows Install"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p> Here's another one of those &#8220;in case you have this problem\ntoo&#8221; posts.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nWhile doing a Windows-XP repair install, during the &#8220;Installing\nDrivers&#8221; phase of the install, <span class='nobr'>a dialog<\/span> popped up about my nVidia\ngraphics board, asking if <span class='nobr'>I wanted<\/span> to install the unsigned driver. Yes, <span class='nobr'>I\ndid,<\/span> but <span class='nobr'>I couldn't<\/span> tell it that because some short time before that dialog\npopped up, both my mouse and keyboard became unresponsive.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nOn a whim, <span class='nobr'>I went out<\/span> and bought an old PS\/2 mouse (really <span class='nobr'>a USB<\/span> mouse with\n<span class='nobr'>a PS<\/span>\/2 adapter), and with the PS\/2 mouse, it could actually continue. Phew!\n\n<\/p><p>\n\n(I still hate Windows)\n\n<\/p>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Here's another one of those \"in case you have this problem too\" posts. <\/p><p> While doing a Windows-XP repair install, during the \"Installing Drivers\" phase of the install, a dialog popped up about my nVidia graphics board, asking if I wanted to install the unsigned driver. Yes, I did, but I couldn't tell it that because some short time before that dialog popped up, both my mouse and keyboard became unresponsive. <\/p><p> On a whim, I went out and bought an old PS\/2 mouse (really a USB mouse with a PS\/2 adapter), and with the PS\/2 mouse, it could [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}