Keyboard won't work in Windows 7 boot loader

[willowen100]

I currently have a dual boot of Windows 8 and Windows 7, (Windows 8 was pre-installed, Windows 7 installed on top). When the boot loader shows It says use the arrows to pick an operating system. Well I've tried that I the keyboard doesn't work at all, the tab button doesn't work, nor F8, nor the arrows. The funny thing is when I use Windows 8 bootloader it works perfectly fine, and it also works fine in the BIOS. Before people ask, I have looked through the whole BIOS for USB and startup options, and nothing is working. The keyboard is a wireless one with a USB receiver.

Why is it working in the Windows 8 bootloader, but not the Windows 7 one?

 

[gregrocker]

Some anomaly with the wireless keyboard.

I'd use the Win8 bootloader, by running Windows 8 Automatic Repair.

In Win7 make sure you have the latest chipset and USB drivers, checking optional Windows Updates first after enabling Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3)

 

[willowen100]

Yh OK I'm just currently downloading them all, and I have also set to start up PC in diagnostic mode from the msconfig program to see if there is a hardware or driver problem at fault. I will let you know how it goes and get back ASAP.

 

[willowen100]

Ok diagnostic mode doesn't work, however now I've tried the start up tab on msconfig and ticked all the boxes e.g. safe boot, and now when It does it stuff I takes hours to load each file. I should also point out that, after selecting windows 7 from the windows 8 bootloader the OEM post boot icon shows up, and then it everything as mentioned before goes terribly slow from there.

 

[gregrocker]

Run Win7 Startup Repair from System Recovery Options Option 2.