Keyboard Installation problem.

[Wino]

I am trying to install a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard, but I just cannot get win XP Pro to recognise it at all.
It is supposed to not need any drivers, but since that didn't work, I downloaded and installed the correct driver for it, but no matter what I do, when I try and manually setup it up as new hardware, it just never shows the keyboard in the list of available HW to install.
When I unplug it and replug it in, then reboot, the OS correctly picks up the keyboard name etc, but thats as far as it goes.

I'm ready to throw it away!

 

[kronoSX]

uninstall the drivers via control panel and let the internet update it

 

[caps]

If it's a USB Keyboard, enable the USB keyboard setting in the BIOS.

 

[kronoSX]

Ahhaa,i forgot about that one
In bios enable usb keyboard support

 

[Wino]

The only USB settings I see in BIOS are:

USB Function - Enabled
High Speed USB - Enabled
Legacy USB Suport - Enabled
USB 2.0 Legacy Support - Full Speed

I've tried uninstalling drivers and letting windows update, no luck.


The error I get is:

"This device cannot start. (Code 10)"

 

[kronoSX]

faulty device or not enough power for usb,but in most cases try another port but inplug all other usb devices

 

[Wino]

Anyone else got any ideas? I have now tried everything - even uninstalling all my USB ports, and letting windows re-assign them.

The funny thing is, when booting I can see the new keyboard is initialized, but once XP has booted, the keyboard is dead. I get the message saying "Found new hardware - Microsoft Custom Curve 2000 " - but the driver installation program cannot find a driver. When I manually try to install a driver, it just cant find it - is there some other way to install a driver that I am not doing?

Thanks