I have seen this problem many times and there is a simple solution. Unplug
the keyboard and mouse turn the machine on and wait for it to get to the
login screen. Now you can plug them back in. After you do you have to wait a
minute or two but the system will install them and you will be good to go
On Mar 21, 2011 9:57 AM, <matt_fr...@cbca.com> wrote:
> Well, there is a problem with that....
>
> 1. These are not OEM drivers. These are drivers that are built into
> windows.
> 2. I don't have any driver files for these. Dell doesn't even provide
> drivers for their USB mice and keyboards.... They just are supposed to use
> the built-in drivers and "just work".
> 3. The Mouse and keyboard drivers get properly associated with the devices
> during the unattended installation, and they work, until I use a different
> mouse and/or keyboard or in a different USB port.
>
> I think the inf files for these drivers are stored in the C:\WINDOWS\inf
> folder. I would think that windows would be smart enough to look in its
> own inf folder for drivers when detecting hardware. Is there a setting
> somewhere that MAKES it do that?
>
> I can't be the only one using USB mice and keybaords. Does it just plain
> work for everyone else?
>
>
>
>
>
> Juanjo Pablos <jua...@apertus.es>
> 03/19/2011 05:36 PM
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> Subject
> Re: [Unattended] HID mouse drivers
>
>
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>
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>
> El 18/03/11 23:30, matt_fr...@cbca.com escribió:
>>
>> Most of the PCs that I have been using Unattended with are several
>> years old, and all of them have PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports. I have
>> received a shipment of newer PCs that don't have the legacy ports, and
>> are USB only. When I install Windows XP SP3 on these new machines, the
>> keyboard and mouse work fine because they were detected during the
>> setup. However, when I deploy the machine, here is where I run into
>> the problem...
>>
>> The keyboard and mouse that get connected to the PC are different
>> brands than what I used during installation. To make things more fun,
>> there are now 6 to 8 USB ports on these PCs and the devices may not
>> have been plugged into the same port as was used during install. The
>> result: No mouse or keyboard is detected, and the user cannot login.
>>
>> I can fix this only if I perform the following:
>>
>> connect the exact same keyboard that I used during setup to the exact
>> same port that I used during setup.
>> login as admin.
>> go into Device Manager.
>> Expand Human Interface Devices.
>> Right-click on "HID-compliant device" and choose to update the driver.
>> Install drivers from a list, and don't search.
>>
>> At this point, I get 2 drivers to choose from:
>>
>> HID-compliant device (which is signed by Microsoft)
>> HID-compliant mouse (which is unsigned)
>>
>> I select the HID-compliant MOUSE, it updates the drivers, and now the
>> mouse works. Perform the same procedure for the keyboard, but choose
>> HID-compliant keyboard.
>>
>> This seems way too complicated for what should really be
>> "plug-and-play". Why is windows not seeing a USB mouse as a MOUSE? I
>> thought that maybe the HID-compliant device driver that was signed was
>> overriding the mouse driver because it wasn't signed, but I have
>> DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore in the unattended.txt file.
>>
>> Is there a driver that I should add or a change that I can make to get
>> Windows to properly recognize the most important devices connected to
>> the machine?
>>
>> This is really a bummer if I have to ship the machine to a remote
>> user, and they can't even use it! ARGH! There was nothing wrong with
>> the PS/2 spec....
>>
>
> Did you try to put those drivers under the i386/$oem$ directory?
>
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> -- Chapman.
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