What should I delete from the registry to make windows forget a keyboard?

[Delano.888]

Ok I'll try to keep it short.

I had a Corsair Vengeance K90. Every once in a while, it would stop working. About once a month, I think it was related to unplugging maybe.

I could only fix it, by taking it out, and plugging it in, in a different USB port. I have a Rampage IV extreme so I had quite a few.

About after a year, I ran out of ports. The keyboard stopped working. So I contacted corsair. They tried to help me, but ended up sending me a K95 (yeeay)

So I got that, plugged it in, and DAMN, same problem.

The strange thing is, they keyboard is not broken, it's a new K95, the problem lies in windows, and I know it's only in windows because, when I boot the computer, the keyboard lights up, I can get into the bios, all buttons work in the bios, all functions, even the lightning switches and everything, they all work. But at the "starting windows" screen, the lights go off, and it looks dead. Nothing gets detected, if I unplug it and plug it back in, it doesn't do anything, no sound, no sign it gets detected at all.

 

I know, that re-installing windows, will PROBABLY work, but I really don't feel like doing that. I installed, tweaked, and stored so much on it, I really don't have the time to re do all that right now.

 

So I tried some other things:

-Reinstalled/reinstalled the driver many times

-I did this: http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-ghost-devices.html (show all hidden devices in device manager) it didn't show up.

-I have had ghostbuster for years on my computer, and it has always worked fantastic, it deletes ghosts of no longer needed usb drivers. So I tried that, but nothing. The Corsair keyboard was labeled as a service, so it couldn't be deleted.

-So I asked a question on the ghostbuster forums

The creator of the program contacted me and, helped me greatly, he created a custom version of ghostbuster that would allow the removal of the Corsair service, which it did, but didn't fix it.

-I found CORSGKB (corsair gaming keyboard I think), in the registry, under System\CurrentControlSet\Services, and deleted that, didn't fix it.

 

So now, I KNOW windows has some small part of the corsair gaming keyboard driver or service, somewhere still, which blocks the detection of the keyboard in windows. I just have to know where to find it, so I can delete it, and hopefully all is well.

 

I really hope someone here has some clue where to find and delete the problem, probably in the registry?

 

Thanks!!!

[Fulgrim]

Try this program, i used it a couple weeks ago because my rig was taking forever booting up, found drivers for old headphones, mice and a couple programs which kept trying to load up despite being uninstalled, was causing issues with my onboard sound.

[Delano.888]

Try this program, i used it a couple weeks ago because my rig was taking forever booting up, found drivers for old headphones, mice and a couple programs which kept trying to load up despite being uninstalled, was causing issued with my onboard sound.

 

Wow I have like 50 yellow/red entries, guess I'll look into what they all are and delete some. Thanks! Hope it works, I'll get on it right now.

 

Wow this sucks, I have like 1000 entries total, and nothing looks like corsair, just look at the scroll bar:

 

http://i.imgur.com/80LtW9M.png

 

Maybe someone who knows where to look, can take a look at it? Here's all of it:

 

https://mega.co.nz/#!aYVmzZYa!jNgV5NEz8g5RFP2zm79THN-Zt4K1L4PVC3CFEcDiW2w

[Fulgrim]

Organize the list by Publisher - just click the bar at the top labelled Publisher and it should autosort the list into alphabetical order. Then scroll down and look for anything Corsair.

[Delano.888]

Organize the list by Publisher - just click the bar at the top labelled Publisher and it should autosort the list into alphabetical order. Then scroll down and look for anything Corsair.

Yep that's the problem, there's nothing named corsair.