Digitally Signed Driver Requirement (Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1)

[Dwarf Midget]

After re-installing windows earlier, I decided to install drivers for my mouse as the movement didn't feel right. I downloaded the drivers for the R.A.T 3 from the Cyborg website, and the installation went fine. After the installation, however, a message popped up claiming that the drivers were not "digitally signed" and as a result, I couldn't use my mouse. I googled this issue, and tried a couple methods to fix it, such as going into advanced boot options and disabling the signed driver requirement, and using the command prompt to disable it. Both of these have been fruitless, and I still can't use my mouse. (Or my headset for that matter.) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

The options to disable signed driver enforcement is there to allow you to install unsigned drivers. If your drivers required signing to install, you wouldn't have been able to install them with driver signature enforcement set to on.

This sounds more like an incompatible driver.

If you had functionality of your mouse before installation of said driver, you should be able to roll back the driver using device manager. It sounds like the default driver from Microsoft at least worked.

 

[fabledareturn]

I would uninstall the new driver you installed restart your pc and let windows 7 install there default drivers. Incompatible driver problem more than likely.

 

[Dwarf Midget]

The options to disable signed driver enforcement is there to allow you to install unsigned drivers. If your drivers required signing to install, you wouldn't have been able to install them with driver signature enforcement set to on.

This sounds more like an incompatible driver.

If you had functionality of your mouse before installation of said driver, you should be able to roll back the driver using device manager. It sounds like the default driver from Microsoft at least worked.

that's the strange thing, ever since i installed the driver for the first time the mouse has totally stopped working on my system. when plugged in, the light on the bottom comes on but moving the mouse does nothing. i've tried rolling back my driver, i've tried uninstalling it completely, nothing works. i don't understand how the drivers would be incompatible, i installed it for windows 7 64 bit, no other mouse drivers had been previously installed as i formatted my hard drive upon re-installation of windows...why would it just break like this?

 

[Dwarf Midget]

I would uninstall the new driver you installed restart your pc and let windows 7 install there default drivers. Incompatible driver problem more than likely.

i used the driver before i re-installed windows though and it worked fine. plus the windows default driver is terrible.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

The default driver may be terrible, but it's still a driver, and seemed to be working correctly before you installed the other driver. Without a working driver, your hardware isn't going to function.

The next step I would take would be to unplug the mouse, completely uninstall the newer driver package from your system, and finally plug the mouse into a USB port it's never been plugged into before. It should show up as a new device, and provided you removed the non-functioning driver, should be installed with Microsoft's default driver.

Do you have any other mice laying around you could test on the system?

Perhaps the USB port is on the fritz? Are you using a possible low power USB port on a laptop? Perhaps the mouse draws more than the USB can supply reliably?

Mouse cords do wear out, so it's always possible yours has developed a bad connection.

Can you try the mouse and possibly the driver on a different computer?