Driver Help Please - Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard

jellybeard999 · 21 Apr 2008 at 12:45

I have a MS MCE remote on my XP machine, which has the drivers and is working fine. Through its wisdom, windows wants to install a Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 keyboard as well (i have a logitech kb/m combo on standard windows drivers - also working fine).

Now does anyone:

a) Know how to stop it adding new hardware at startup (for this item only)
b) Know where I can get the drivers ?

The drivers seem to be in a MS MCE2005 Rollup, which i cant install obviously, nor can they be extracted from the exe (winrar cant anyway).

Any ideas ?

bledd · 21 Apr 2008 at 14:27

run windows update, that might pick them up?

i've not tried my mce hardware on xp home/pro, only on xp mce, and vista

jellybeard999 · 21 Apr 2008 at 18:19

bledd. said:
run windows update, that might pick them up?

i've not tried my mce hardware on xp home/pro, only on xp mce, and vista

Fully updated

One thought - It asks me to insert XP disc and navigates to x:/i386 and wants to add kbdjpn.dll ... but this isnt on my disc, so I'm wondering if its on the MCE disc ?

EDIT - sorted - added kbdjpn.dll and kbd106.dll which are apparantly japanese language files.

bledd · 21 Apr 2008 at 21:38

that's dumb...

was going to ask what files it was looking for, would have put them in a zip file for you

this_is_gav · 22 Apr 2008 at 10:45

It installs the drivers for the keyboard as the dongle is used for both the remote and keyboard (the keyboard doesn't even come with its own dongle - you have to buy the remote), which explains why it was asking for the keyboard's drivers.

The driver files are indeed on the XP MCE 2005 disk, and updated in the MCE Rollup 2 as I remember. I think I've seen them cobbled together as a separate download by someone somewhere for standard XP machines too - they're not available from Microsoft.