Some weird behavior with Win 7

[strula]

Well this never happened before. I boot up my PC and the wireless mouse and keyboard will not work. When I press del to enter the BIOS they both work. When the menu to boot in safe mode comes up, the keyboard works. But when win boots up and I get the Users menu, I get the mouse arrow in the middle of the screen and it will not work. The keyboard doesn’t seem to work either. This is also the case when I boot in safe mode. So whata heck is going on? How do I even begin to troubleshoot this?

[emosun]

plug a normal louse and keyboard into the system and start there

[strula]

That’s weird. The wired setup works. Why would the wireless work in bios and other menus but not work once Windows boots up? What’s the fix?

[Zmax]

Good chance it's driver related. Try removing the keyboard and mouse in the device manager. Then reboot and see if windows detect them .

 

 

[strula]

Turns out the wired setup doesn’t work all the time either. It’s pretty sporadic. When I plug in my iPad to sync it, the mouse arrow freezes up. When I unplugged it it started working again. But now it won’t work either way. And it won’t recognize the iPad either.

 

Could it be the whole USB system?

[Zmax]

Try a different USB port.

[strula]

Tried all of them

[Zmax]

As a last resort. I would do a clean reinstall. Bad solution but worth a try.

[Turtle Rig]

Maybe uncle billy is punishing you for using Windows 7 to begin with.  nah just kidding my friend.. sighs..... But ya I say put BIOS to defaults,, then turn off system. and the PSU switch to off.  Turn on that mobo switch and turn on your pc and see what happens.  Just a thought...

[Lord Letto]

What System? AFAIK stuff that uses DDR4 (Intel 100 series boards & newer/AMD AM4) got issues with USB drivers for Windows 7 due to it not being supported by the CPU manufacturer.

[homeap5]

Use ps2 mouse and/or keyboard to install drivers in win7.