OT need some help

[Atomic978]

Hello all,

 

Need some help if anybody can help me.

 

I am trying to help a friend with his PC and I have been stumped for the last 6 hours trying to format his pc. Here is the problem.

 

His PC has NO PS/2 ports whats soever. He has a PS/2 to USB patch cable to run his keyboard and Mouse.

 

He is running Windows XP Home edition.

 

Now I have worked on PC's for a long time and have never had this problem before.

 

I can not get the system to boot in does without any Keyboard support.

 

I already know that the USB ports are the last to load prior to windows. But I was wondering if anybody knows how to get around this so I can get the keyboard to work in DOS. Like I stated above there is no PS/2 port on his PC at all. Just some USB ports as this system was primarly shipped with Windows ME. He upgraded to XP a while ago and is now having problems. I can not even boot the computer with the XP disc as when it comes to the screen "press any key to boot from cd" none of the keys on the keyboard will function as it has not loaded the USB ports yet.

 

Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank You in advance...

 

Atomic