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MS Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 No longer working
I have a MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard. It has been working fine for...well, two years? Sometime ago I performed a Windows Update and the keyboard stopped working. Reinstalled the MS Keyboard & Mouse Center and it worked fine. This weekend I rebooted my computer (Windows Updates again), came into work Monday and the keyboard stopped working. Reinstalling MS Keyboard & Mouse Center doesn't make a difference.
-Windows 7 detects when I plug in the keyboard, even the model model (picture and all), but the PnP interface can not find the driver. (Still doesn't work when I install it via MS Keyboard & Mouse Center, even though the program installs fine).
-I have gone in and removed ALL USB devices, rebooted, and the keyboard works UNTIL the Windows 7 PnP starts detecting hardware. Then it breaks the keyboard again.
-This keyboard works on another Windows 7 computer, as well as a Linux computer.
-The keyboard is getting power
-The keyboard works at bootup (F8, Bios, etc)
-Plugging in a standard keyboard (Dell) works fine.
-Restoring to an earlier restore point hasn't helped.
Any thoughts? Is there anyway to find just that specific keyboard driver, without installing the MS Center (which obviously doesn't work?) Any help would be greatly appreciated, my hands don't work well on standard keyboards (they literally hurt), so I'm really hoping to get an ergo keyboard working again.
Jon