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  1. Posts : 21
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       #21

    seavixen32 said:
    Have you tried booting into safe mode first to see if you get any response from your keyboard and mouse?

    You may also have a faulty motherboard or some RAM gone bad.
    The same think happens in safe mode, mouse and keyboard work until Windows fails at finding drivers. My motherboard is a high-quality motherboard and doesn't seem to have any problems, not exactly sure how to test the integrity of a motherboard though. My RAM has passed long tests of prime95.

    suman6792 said:
    JUST DOWNLOAD DRIVERMAX OR DEVICE DOCTOR OR DriverGenius
    THEY ARE DRIVER MANAGING SOFTWARE. THIS WILL SOLVE YOUR PROB
    I don't need any help downloading the drivers.



    I will try Mike and pooch's posts and report back when I can.
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  2. Posts : 2,039
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       #22

    This may also be useful to you;

    View any installed/connected USB device on your system

    Regards....Mike Connor
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  3. Posts : 21
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #23

    Mike Connor said:
    This may also be useful to you;

    View any installed/connected USB device on your system

    Regards....Mike Connor
    Wow, I've found hundreds of the duplicate devices in there, possibly from it installing drivers every time I plug the devices back in.
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  4. Posts : 2,039
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       #24

    Agj32mrgibbits said:
    Mike Connor said:
    This may also be useful to you;

    View any installed/connected USB device on your system

    Regards....Mike Connor
    Wow, I've found hundreds of the duplicate devices in there, possibly from it installing drivers every time I plug the devices back in.

    Well, looks like you found the problem then! :)

    Regards....Mike Connor
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  5. Posts : 1,524
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       #25

    Agj32mrgibbits said:
    Mike Connor said:
    This may also be useful to you;

    View any installed/connected USB device on your system

    Regards....Mike Connor
    Wow, I've found hundreds of the duplicate devices in there, possibly from it installing drivers every time I plug the devices back in.
    Thats what I suggested complete with remedy
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  6. Posts : 21
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #26

    Didn't work.

    Pictures:
    -1 is immediately after installing the drivers, rebooting, and plugging the devices in.
    -2 is after Windows fails to find drivers.
    -3 is after uninstalling the devices, rebooting, and then prompty killing all the drvinst.exe processes, which is the only way I've been able to get them working so far

    The usb device on hub 0004 is the dell ball mouse I've been using during the process.





    Could the usb.ids error have something to do with it?

    I will probably end up having to reinstall Windows and just use my #3 method to keep them working until then.

    Thanks for all the help so far.
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  7. Posts : 2,039
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       #27

    Agj32mrgibbits said:
    Didn't work.

    Pictures:
    -1 is immediately after installing the drivers, rebooting, and plugging the devices in.
    -2 is after Windows fails to find drivers.
    -3 is after uninstalling the devices, rebooting, and then prompty killing all the drvinst.exe processes, which is the only way I've been able to get them working so far

    The usb device on hub 0004 is the dell ball mouse I've been using during the process.





    Could the usb.ids error have something to do with it?

    I will probably end up having to reinstall Windows and just use my #3 method to keep them working until then.

    Thanks for all the help so far.
    Unfortunate. The trouble is, that once some error causes something like this to occur, it can be extremely difficult to find, and so most of the measures are then to remove various things and reinstall them, this often works, but it doesn't tell you what the error was, and if it doesn't work you are no better off and no wiser either.

    If one is unable to solve such problems within a reasonable time-frame, then the only real recourse is a clean install.

    Regards....Mike Connor
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  8. Posts : 1,524
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #28

    pooch said:
    Hello Agj32mrgibbits if mikes advice does not work try this

    General USB problems
    After a USB device is installed and then removed Windows hides the driver this first part makes all hidden drivers visible.
    Remove all USB devices
    Click on start orb, Type Advanced System settings in the search box and click to go there.
    Click on Advanced tab, Click on Enviroment Variables.
    Under the window System variables click on New.
    Type " devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices" (without the ") as the variable name and type 1 as the value.
    Click ok 3 times to close the windows
    Click on start orb, Type Device Manager in the search box and click to go there.
    Click on View, Click on Show hidden devices.
    Now you can uninstall all old and unknown USB devices.
    The infcache.1 file is used to store information about USB drivers, the information in this file may have become corrupted or may cause windows to load the wrong driver or cause a driver not found message to be generated.
    Deleting this file will force windows to generate a new infcache.1 file
    Right click on the start orb and select Windows Explorer,
    Select Computer in the address bar and search for infcache.1
    Right click on the file infcache.1 (if you have more instances of Windows installed only do this for infcache.1 C:\Windows\System32\Driver Store)
    Click on properties, Click on security tab, Click on Edit, Click on Add
    Type Administrators In the window with the blinking cursor, Click OK
    Place a tick in the box under allow to the right of Full Control, Click Apply, Yes and OK
    Delete the infcache.1 file
    Connect a USB device, but not the one you were having trouble with to make a new infcache .1
    New Start the PC and try your device again.
    Did you try going through this post?
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  9. Posts : 21
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #29

    pooch said:
    pooch said:
    Hello Agj32mrgibbits if mikes advice does not work try this

    General USB problems
    After a USB device is installed and then removed Windows hides the driver this first part makes all hidden drivers visible.
    Remove all USB devices
    Click on start orb, Type Advanced System settings in the search box and click to go there.
    Click on Advanced tab, Click on Enviroment Variables.
    Under the window System variables click on New.
    Type " devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices" (without the ") as the variable name and type 1 as the value.
    Click ok 3 times to close the windows
    Click on start orb, Type Device Manager in the search box and click to go there.
    Click on View, Click on Show hidden devices.
    Now you can uninstall all old and unknown USB devices.
    The infcache.1 file is used to store information about USB drivers, the information in this file may have become corrupted or may cause windows to load the wrong driver or cause a driver not found message to be generated.
    Deleting this file will force windows to generate a new infcache.1 file
    Right click on the start orb and select Windows Explorer,
    Select Computer in the address bar and search for infcache.1
    Right click on the file infcache.1 (if you have more instances of Windows installed only do this for infcache.1 C:\Windows\System32\Driver Store)
    Click on properties, Click on security tab, Click on Edit, Click on Add
    Type Administrators In the window with the blinking cursor, Click OK
    Place a tick in the box under allow to the right of Full Control, Click Apply, Yes and OK
    Delete the infcache.1 file
    Connect a USB device, but not the one you were having trouble with to make a new infcache .1
    New Start the PC and try your device again.
    Did you try going through this post?
    Yes.
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  10. Posts : 1,524
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #30

    Agj32mrgibbits said:
    Didn't work.







    Could the usb.ids error have something to do with it?
    I am a bit confused as there are drivers showing from devices that are not connected these should all be gone or are you using multiple mice and keyboards?
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