"keyboard error or keyboard not present" (solved....Fing windows)

[mdchesne]

anyone else find this asinine?

but seriously, I have a logitech elite keyboard that was working fine last night when I shut down my computer for the first time in like 2 weeks. Booted up this morning and I got this error (had it before one various occasions, but those occasions were when the computer did not shut down properly). tried all 10 USB ports and none of them worked. I can solve it by plugging in a standard belkin PS2 keyboard, rebooting, and then plugging in the USB logitech after the computer boots, but this is a hassle. anyway to fix this or at least why it's doing this?

 

[ThePiston]

do you have "enable all USB devices" enabled in your BIOS?

 

[mdchesne]

should be. works 99% of the time at startup. just sometimes it won't recognize it. Once I get home and do my PS2 trick, I'll check, but it most likely is

 

[ThePiston]

probably is enabled, but i'd check that, also make sure you have Stop on "no errors" so your bios doesn't try and keep your computer from booting if it doesn't immediately see a keyboard

 

[mdchesne]

UPDATE: booted up using old ps2 keyboard and checked out the problem all via keystrokes (eugh, never know what you have with a mouse until it's gone). finally figured out windows somehow (SOMEHOW) lost my USB Controller. seriously...how can windows just up and forget about a driver? So I had to reinstall that driver and "oh, hey, i'm windows...i finally see you have a usb mouse connected. oh silly me" *la la la la la*


<ANGER!!!>

 

[Smilin]

The loss of your USB controller will be reflected in your %systemroot%\setupapi.log file if you are interested in the root cause.