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Xas1953NC:
OK, will do that. Disregard my bit about a flashdrive changing a letter to L. I have just done a test and as I use one usb socket only for such things it is the letter P that is replaced by the letter M and of course it reverts back to the lettern P upon removing the flashdrive.

Xas1953NC:
Hello Boggin, before commencing I thought it best to do a restart. I then went to Device Manager, show hidden, and the only one with a yellow and ! was the Microsoft PS/2 one. I exited and returned 3 times and all is clear bar the PS/2 one again, the error being "This device is not present, is not working properly, or does not have all its drivers installed. (Code 24)"

Boggin:
There's something very strange going on here ????

If you have an old PS/2 mouse then you could plug that in and try the same with that, but right click on it and select Update driver software to see if Windows will find anything for it - also do a manual check for Windows Updates - it's amazing how they can detect when you have an out of date driver.

Xas1953NC:
OKI, will do. Thanks

Boggin:
I've been doing some experimenting which may do something for you if you don't have a PS/2 mouse.

I created a restore point and uninstalled my PS/2 Compatible mouse driver and after the reboot it was still there in Device Manager but with a yellow alert next to and no amount of Scan for hardware changes would reinstate it and when I did the Update driver software bit - it returned that I had the latest drivers.

A Google found http://www.driverscape.com/download/microsoft-ps-2-mouse

The Mouse Driver Installer just gives you an Updater program which is a paid for job for it to update drivers, but the actual Driver download below that gave me a Synaptics Touchpad driver for my Toshiba laptop (10 mins to download when I clicked on Run)

After I ran the Set up and checked Device Manager after the reboot, the yellow alerted PS/2 Compatible mouse driver had been replaced with Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad.

Not exactly what I was expecting, but as I don't have a PS/2 mouse to try the reinstate, that seems the best it could do for my laptop but it may give something more apt for you as it recognizes your OS.

It's possible that your screwed PS/2 is the cause of all of your problems so getting any update to get rid of the yellow alert may sort your Boot problems.

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