I started installing Windows 2003 Server on a machine that already had
Windows XP Professional SP2. It told me to reboot. Upon rebooting it wants
to boot to Windows 2003 Setup. The keyboard does not respond when I try to
use the up arrow to boot to XP. The keyboard will not respond when I hit F1
or F2 or F anything. It tries to boot to the hard disk and ignores the CD
and floppy.

After the setup program for Windows 2003 starts again I get a BSOD.

I tried creating a Win98 setup disk but since the computer does not attempt
to boot from floppy this does not .

How can I boot to Win XP or stop it from forcing me to boot to Win 2003
Setup and ignore all keboard input? TIA.

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PC wrote:
> I started installing Windows 2003 Server on a machine that already had
> Windows XP Professional SP2. It told me to reboot. Upon rebooting
> it wants to boot to Windows 2003 Setup. The keyboard does not
> respond when I try to use the up arrow to boot to XP. The keyboard
> will not respond when I hit F1 or F2 or F anything. It tries to boot
> to the hard disk and ignores the CD and floppy.
>
> After the setup program for Windows 2003 starts again I get a BSOD.
>
> I tried creating a Win98 setup disk but since the computer does not
> attempt to boot from floppy this does not .
>
> How can I boot to Win XP or stop it from forcing me to boot to Win
> 2003 Setup and ignore all keboard input? TIA.

I figured out the problem already. It seemed like input from the keyboard
was not being received so I dusted off the old PS/2 adapters and moved the
keyboard from USB to PS2. I can now choose Windows XP again. Phew!