• Registered: 2012-09-13
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Topic: XP nouse/keyboard driver reinstall?

Hi all, I have not been active on these forums for a few years

I recently installed XP on my z97 machine and have managed to get all the drivers to work on it with everything working.

But I've encountered an unusual problem where if I have booted into my windows 10 install (on the same machine) but then decide to restart back into the XP install, the mouse and keyboard will no longer work, and the mouse and keyboard will be absent from device manager.

I was wondering, is there a way for me to reinstall the generic mouse and keyboard driver?

any help would be appreciated, thanks

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Re: XP nouse/keyboard driver reinstall?

I assume that we are talking about a USB keyboard and mouse?

I assume that you have not done a cold reboot. (full power off of PSU).

Did you try BIOS factory settings reset? (update?)

Some MBs allow charging of devices when the CPU is technically off. this would create a situation where USB KB and Mouse do not reset with the system. (Bios setting)

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  • Registered: 2012-09-13
  • Posts: 170

Re: XP nouse/keyboard driver reinstall?

OverFlow wrote:

I assume that we are talking about a USB keyboard and mouse?

I assume that you have not done a cold reboot. (full power off of PSU).

Did you try BIOS factory settings reset? (update?)

Some MBs allow charging of devices when the CPU is technically off. this would create a situation where USB KB and Mouse do not reset with the system. (Bios setting)

Long time no see, Welcome Back!

Happy Holidays Damnation!

Jeff

Thanks, good to be back,
Merry Christmas!

Yeah, I've tried all of these already when I installed a GTX 970 in this machine a few days ago,

The problem is limited to XP, no other OS is effected, I can reinstall XP and get mouse and keyboard back working again, but then if I boot into another OS and then come back to XP it's broken again.

any ideas?

  • Registered: 2012-09-13
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Re: XP nouse/keyboard driver reinstall?

I can still access and use the system via remote desktop, so that should help,
just need help to reinstall the mouse and keyboard

  • Registered: 2012-09-13
  • Posts: 170

Re: XP nouse/keyboard driver reinstall?

https://s29.postimg.org/rtai3pv6v/nomousekb.pngscreen cap

any ideas for why this might be happening?