Win7 doesn't recognize cheap keyboard

Frayt

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Jun 20, 2013
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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 they say it is just plug and play.

I tried it on my laptop (also 64 bit) and it works perfectly. I moved over the drivers folder to my pc and it didn't help.

This is what my device manager looks like. The USB Keyboard and HID Keyboard Device are both associated with the keyboard. If i uninstall the USB Keyboard, it justs tries to reinstall but fails and gets back to the same spot.

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Now when I plug it into my laptop, it will go through the normal installation, get to the "searching preconfigured drivers" part, and install successfully.