USB keyboard/mouse not working

sedmonds · 28 Sep 2011 at 13:36

Had some problems yesterday with AMD Catalyst drivers messing up and not installing even when running the driver sweeper (Windows 7 64), so gave up in the end and decided to do a reinstall.

Using the UEFI, the mouse and keyboard are working fine, but soon as I got to the Windows setup both appeared to power themselves off! So... I thought ok, have a PS/2 keyboard- so carried on and installed Windows in the hope that once loaded they would spring into life.... wrong!

Never had this problem before when I installed Windows previously with the same hardware.

Motherboard is an Asus p8p67 Pro, mouse & keyboard attached directly to the motherboard at the back.

Anyone have any ideas?

rajravat · 28 Sep 2011 at 13:38

their not plugged into usb3 ports by any chance are they?

sedmonds · 28 Sep 2011 at 13:42

rajravat said:
their not plugged into usb3 ports by any chance are they?

Haha, I should have said, no- there are no rear USB3 ports on this particular motherboards- theres only a header in the middle of the motherboard. - I realise that the USB3 has separate drivers.

But thanks for replying though- I'm at a complete loss at the moment, normally good with these things- its amazing how difficult it is to use Windows without a mouse! I'm beginning to think that perhaps theres something wrong with the Windows image I'm using, although it did appear to install okay with no errors.

sedmonds · 28 Sep 2011 at 14:18

Hmmm, just been reading up, seems there are USB3.0 ports at the back of the motherboard, so this could indeed be the issue! Silly me, I probably switched the cables around previously- will check later to see if thats the case.