Keyboard & mouse no op when doing windows install

AgtX · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:36

bought an asus rog strix b350 & ryzen 1600x, mouse keyboard work fine in bios, put the windows cd in, gets to the starting windows bit then the keyboard & mouse go dark.. loads to the first menu but keyboard & mouse have no power, unplug & replug, the mouse lights up but does nothing, keyboard stays unlit, both are in usb2 sockets.....this motherboard has no ps2 sockets so cant try that.

Suggestions?

AgtX · 10 Oct 2017 at 20:00

Basic keyboard? You mean the old round connector ones, my motherboard has no ps2 round socket on it, or do you mean a basic non lighting up type keyboard will work

Will making a fresh windows install on the hard disc with my old pc setup, fresh, dont install any drivers work on the new setup?

AgtX · 10 Oct 2017 at 23:00

done it before i posted here, theres usb hand off & legacy option. I tried both on, both off, combnation etc, reset the bios settings etc.

The most popular fix is to plug in the old keyboard but having no socket im stuck, i cant believe this isnt a bigger problem, no one else has this, is it anything to do with types of keyboard?

Will this fresh windows setup Installed on my old intel system, plugged into the new amd system work if i put no drivers on it, just installed the os, clean, or does windows actually install some specific stuff for the machine its being installed on during the install from the cd?

The other option seems to be inserting usb3 drivers into an iso of windows 7.... no idea how to do that.....?

AgtX · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:12

So the fresh install works but even once its on thers no usb action. I even installed the usb3 drivers on windows but still didnt work.

AgtX · 11 Oct 2017 at 13:24

Resorted to windows 10 **** it works though, need to try to find an “unattended” windows 7 with the usb drivers added to it & get back to windows 7.

Apparently its all a nasty trick by microsoft to make you upgrade to windows 10, they force the chip manufacturers to not support older os anymore, so ryzen etc dont work.

AgtX · 11 Oct 2017 at 17:00

It has an express & custom option in the install, if you click custom, the options are all the microsoft spyware crap & cortana, i unticked all the boxes & removed it from the task bar when i got to the desktop too.

I think ill just stick to windows 10 anyway, im sick of messing now. All this took me back to the bad old days, spending the whole day trying to get windows 98 working or probably the worst one was getting windows xp to work on those first 1ghz athlon based motherboards, so annoying!