No working Media buttons, keyboard

[Toby91]

Hello


Just reinstalled windows 7 this weekend together with new hardware. But i have encountered some problems, both with sound and keyboard. On my keyboard which is a Logitech Ultra X (Ultra X) i have some buttons at the top, like Media, play/pause, www, email and mute. These have been working earlier on both windows xp and vista, but now they are not working.. Very frustrating as i use them very often.

Do any of you guys in here have any idea about how this may be fixed?


Toby91

 

[Uber Philf]

Hey mate, welcome to the forums.

Have you downloaded drivers for your keyboard?

 

[Toby91]

Thank.. Ehm, the problem is that all the time i have used this keyboard i have never installed any driver for it.. It even says on the logitech site that the keyboard uses native USB drivers already existing in the OS. So i guess thats where the problem is, there are no places i can find drivers.

 

[Kari]

Hei Toby og velkommen til de 7 Forums.

Could you please attach a screenshot showing your Device Manager, keyboard section expanded.

Kari

 

[Toby91]

Here it is.

It just says HID keyboard.

 

[Kari]

OK. You could try this:

• Disconnect the keyboard
• Right click HID Keyboard device in Device Manager, choose Uninstall. Do this for both instances
• Shut down your computer
• Reconnect the keyboard
• Reboot and let Windows find the keyboard and install the drivers

Might work...

Kari

 

[Toby91]

Ok, i'll try.. Will give you a comment on how it works..

 

[Toby91]

Nope, that didn't work... still some not responding buttons..

 

[Kari]

Don't know what to suggest next... I'll check something and come back.

Kari

 

[Toby91]

Hi again!


Eventually bought myself a new keyboard, a Logitech G15. But when i installed it, i still had the problem with non working media buttons. So i went again searching for an soulution and found one!


I seems to be an startupentry which you manually have to change from manual to automatic.. If there are anyone having this problem, here is the solution:


- Go to controlpanel --> Performance and maintenance --> Administrative tools

- Choose services and scroll down to find "Human interface devices"

- Right click and choose properties --> and change startup type from manual to automatic --> Reboot and your media buttons should now be working again!


At least it did here, and i'm now happy with my new keyboard!


Toby91

 

[Tews]

Thanks for sharing your fix... it is appreciated...

 

[Kari]

Thanks for sharing your fix... it is appreciated...

+1

Kari

 

[Uber Philf]

Thanks for sharing your fix... it is appreciated...

+1

Kari

+2

It's great when you get a solution and you post back, helps us help you by not having to reply to repeat posts because someone didn't post his/her solution.

 

[Kari]

+2

It's great when you get a solution and you post back, helps us help you by not having to reply to repeat posts because someone didn't post his/her solution.

Maybe a wrong place to write this, but anyway:

What I am missing here on the Seven Forums is the stories about the solutions, fixed issues. I mean, a lot of posters ask help and get some possible solutions but never come back to tell how it went.

Sometimes I see a long thread, where the OP has a peculiar issue. The thread goes on and on, often weeks, and then suddenly nothing. When I see this same member posting on other threads, I'm always thinking "what happened with that issue back then?"

It is very nice to see some members think of this, think about other members and tell when and how the issue was solved. Writing this, I decided the OP has deserved some rep for doing this. It is a correct thing to do.

Had some whisky tonight, hopefully you can still understand my point.

Kari

 

[Uber Philf]

+2

It's great when you get a solution and you post back, helps us help you by not having to reply to repeat posts because someone didn't post his/her solution.

Maybe a wrong place to write this, but anyway:

What I am missing here on the Seven Forums is the stories about the solutions, fixed issues. I mean, a lot of posters ask help and get some possible solutions but never come back to tell how it went.

Sometimes I see a long thread, where the OP has a peculiar issue. The thread goes on and on, often weeks, and then suddenly nothing. When I see this same member posting on other threads, I'm always thinking "what happened with that issue back then?"

It is very nice to see some members think of this, think about other members and tell when and how the issue was solved. Writing this, I decided the OP has deserved some rep for doing this. It is a correct thing to do.

Had some whisky tonight, hopefully you can still understand my point.

Kari

With or without wisky, your point is fair and valid, couldn't have said it better myself.

Think something about replying with your solution will go into my sig.

 

[Toby91]

Thanks, yes i did think of it when i wrote the answer in my post. I know it myself how frustrating it is to search for an answer and read page up and down which eventually just ends with no one knowing a solution. So i hope people find use in this fix if they were to have this type of problem.


Uber Philf: See that you wrote in your sig, good idea! Shoulb be more people writing their solutions back!

 

[Uber Philf]

Thanks, yes i did think of it when i wrote the answer in my post. I know it myself how frustrating it is to search for an answer and read page up and down which eventually just ends with no one knowing a solution. So i hope people find use in this fix if they were to have this type of problem.


Uber Philf: See that you wrote in your sig, good idea! Shoulb be more people writing their solutions back!

Let's hope so!

 

[saaanx]

Sorry for reviving such an old post, but I kind of only registered to thank Toby91 for his answer.
This f****ing issue had been driving me MAD for at least a whole year and now I finally got it fixed up.

Thanks a bunch pal!

 

[Ghis1964]

Same here for the past 4yrs. It was the "natural MS" keyboard that came with vista some 8yrs ago. As it is not on my main machine, I came close to install the old vista drivers on 7 for this. Thx Toby91. It saved me and Miss Environment from one more keyboard

 

[rekput]

Just say thnx

Hi Toby,

just registered to say thnx. I'm searching the Internet for the solution of my, very not working, multimedia keys. And this voor 3 days in a row, and there you are, my saviour, my hero. The quality of your findings are pretty unique on the Internet. This was the one and only working solution. I mean, just want to say thank you very much, it almost drove me crazy.

Live long and proper,

Grtz, Ger.