Win7 doesn't recognize cheap keyboard

[Frazl]

I recently broke my keyboard of 2 years and got a cheap one from some chinese manufacturer off ebay. Money is tight atm so I could not afford a high end one. Windows tries to find a driver but it cant.
Now the strange thing is, i can type my truecrypt key in fine and use the bios, but once i boot it goes dead.

I've contacted the seller (manufacturer has no website) and am waiting for a reply.

 

[tom_gr7]

hmm, I'd return it to the seller. I'd at least argue that it's probably a faulty keyboard.

 

[Frazl]

I tried it on my laptop (also 64 bit) and it works perfectly. Is there some way I can move the driver files over?

 

[Frazl]

BUMP, someone please?

 

[ubuysa]

I would go into Device Manager, expand the Keyboards section and uninstall all entries you see there, if you are asked whether to remove the driver say Yes. Then reboot with your new keyboard installed, Windows should load whatever driver is required.

 

[Frazl]

SOLVED - With no help from anyone else I might add. I used a tool called DriverMax, backed up my drivers on my laptop (which, as I said above, worked.) and then went onto device manager, right clicked on the USB Keyboard > Driver details > Update Drivers > Searched for them > Selected folder containing backup of drivers > Windows did the rest.