Keyboard & Mouse

[jimz360]

Iv been using windows 7 x64 for around 3 months now and it has been great, but now my keyboard & mouse dont work anymore, i turned it off at night and in the morning when i switched it on had no keyboard/mouse.
Im having to use a ubuntu live cd because i have no control in windows 7, havnt got spare keyboard/mouse to test either. Tried disabling legacy support to no avail, also after a restart holding the power button, windows asked if i want to repair, i click yes then clicked on restore on the next tab, it restarted and keyboard/mouse worked fine until i rebooted again, now when i try restore it wont work at all and im stuck using ubuntu from a disc!

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello, Welcome to the Forums!
It might help us if you filled in your system specs: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/23726-how-system-specs.html
Try booting up in Safe Mode. If you have control of the mouse, try uninstalling all mouse/keyboard drivers from Device Manager.
Also, what anti-virus are you using?

 

[jimz360]

oops, iv entered spec

 

[Jonathan_King]

Good for you. Try uninstalling the drivers in Safe Mode, and rebooting. Then boot up normally and see what happens.

 

[jimz360]

Keyboard & mouse dont work in safemode, when i tried booting it looked like it got stuck loading a driver, but eventually booted to safemode where im in the same position

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hmm... This problem is beyond me. Can you boot to your Installation/Repair disc?
Are the keyboard and mouse USB, PS/2, or wireless? Also try booting to the BIOS and making sure they are enabled.

 

[jimz360]

might just try that now, does it delete all my installed apps? Also im able to delete files from ubuntu, is there any drivers i could find and just delete?

 

[Jonathan_King]

It should not touch your programs and files. I do not know of a way to uninstall drivers from Ubuntu.

 

[jimz360]

I cant run the repair disk, running out of options and really dont want to do a full install, where would the directory be for generic keyboard/mouse drivers? i didnt install drivers from logitech so think there would be some windows 7 legacy driver, if i could find and delete it hopefully windows would re-install
Thanks for your help jonathan

 

[Jonathan_King]

Do you have control of your kb/mouse in the Repair disc? If so, we may be able to do stuff from the command prompt.

 

[Mikey1031]

Doing an install on a new build all went very well, until. I have a programable keyboard (PS2) I got on a CompUSA promotion deal 5 or 6 years back and decided to give it a try. W7 accepted the kb however after I installed the drivers and rebooted it locked up on the welcome screen. No keyboard input no mouse movement. Tried safe mode same result then tried W7 auto repair with same result. Because it was early on and had few applications loaded I reinstalled W7, and did NOT reinstall the KB driver...

All is well now.

Moral of the story is be very careful about older programable keyboards.

 

[HammerHead]

Asus -- AMI Bios

This will not make sense I am sure. I am just relating a similar problem I had. Mouse and Keyboard are USB. Intermittently they would not work on a bootup. Some times it would take numerous boots to get them. Trouble shot all settings in bios and hardware (cords, plugs, ports, etc.) Discovered that when they failed on a boot if I rebooted entered the bios did an F10 and saved (no changes) the problem would go away. LOL (more than likely a coincidence) Any way my rig hasn't done it for a long time now.