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I'm working with an HP Elitedesk 260 G2 Mini-desktop. Basically, it has USB 2 and 3, a VGA port and a RJ-45 port. I have a USB keyboard and mouse plugged into the USB 2 ports.

I pushed a Windows 7 image to it using my network boot solution, and it's now on the logon screen.

Normally, I have to wait a minute or two for a freshly imaged PC to see the USB hub and grab a driver for it, but for some reason this PC is refusing to bring up the keyboard and mouse, so I have no way to physically log in to finish up. I tried a different keyboard and mouse, but I have the suspicion that the PC isn't bringing up the USB hub itself.

Are there any methods I can use to log onto this? I tried PsExec to get a shell, but the $ADMIN share is not enabled on this machine, so that's a no go.

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    are you certain the USB ports are active? it's possible they've been disabled in BIOS. If the Bios has a legacy emulation mode for USB, try enabling that.
    – Stese
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:31
  • I did have to switch from UEFI to legacy BIOS before I pushed the image, so I'll check really quick to see if there's anything there related to USB.
    – user201262
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:31
  • "Are there any methods I can use to log onto this?" Use the on-screen keyboard...?
    – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:32
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    @Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 How do I use the on-screen keyboard when the mouse doesn't work?
    – user201262
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:33
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    One thing - I have a script that joins this to our domain, and the script just ran. I'm going to try and push out a GPO to turn on RDP.
    – user201262
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:41

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I found a way to gain remote access: My image included a script that automatically joins the computer to our domain. The script ran and the machine rebooted.

I then pushed out a quick-and-dirty GPO to that computer which ran the following as a startup script:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

That turns on RDP, and I was able to log in as administrator and install the appropriate drivers.

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