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Deus6858

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Okay, first of all hello everyone!

This is a really nice and helpful site and it's been recommended to me in several occasions, due to the fast replies and just activity in overall when it comes to helping people.
And whenever I had any software/hardware problems while Googling them out I always ran into this website and the solution I was looking for was usually here.
Keep up the good work people...

I may have posted this thread in the wrong section, sorry about that and feel free to move it elsewhere.

Anyway, I'm here because I'm having problems with my new Keyboard, I'm writing this on my old malfunctioned one because I don't have a choice

It won't work, the first time when I plugged it in it worked for a 10 secs or so and that's it.
I've seen the message below, the USB blah blah is recognized, this device is installed and now ready for use.

So yeah, it did detect it at the first place, and I managed to start typing when it died again.
Now only buttons that works are the ones above, the Home, Volume+, Volume-, Mute and others.
But that's it, everyhing below that is dead and it doesn't work.

I've tried entering the BIOS and it does works there, but here... normally when I start my PC it doesn't.
Please guys help me out, I really don't know how to fix this and I would appreciate any and replies you got.
And I really couldn't spare any more money for the new keyboard, because I'm not in a good financial situation at the moment.

I'll cooperate and anwer any questions needed regarding the keyboard, my system or where ever the hell do you think the problem is :(

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
 
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Hey man, thanks for replying so fast!

I found some info about the keyboard on the box...
It's a Gitatech keyboard, Model GT-491E, rest of the info is irrelevant I guess, it's type, durabilty, buttons, interface etc... irrelevant in this case I assume.

It's not some high tech keyboard, nor is it expensive, but I don't think that's the problem because I used a keyboard cheaper than this one for almost two years now without any problems whatsoever, so everything worked perfectly, but something is wrong with this one :(
 
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hari1987

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If your keyboard work while booting and stops working while in windows, I would guess that the problem is the driver, check in device manager to see if the driver is properly installed.
 
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Hi there, sorry for my late reply, I couldn't reply for a while because I've tried what @hari1987 suggested me to do.
Which didn't work unfortunately, my PC didn't even detect the new keyboard, so I couldn't update a driver of something which technically wasn't there according to my PC, so it didn't detect it properly.

I've connected my old keyboard to the PC and tried updating the driver there just to see would it work there, which made it even worse because after that I couldn't use that keyboard either, because that "new" driver didn't work at all and it made the keyboard useless, so I was left without a keyboard at all.

I had no choice but to drive my PC to the nearest PC repair store, after all it would've seemed that the problem wasn't in the drivers at all or anything else software based, I'm not entirely sure though but it seems like the keyboard was too old for my PC design so I had to get some kind of USB extension for the keyboard to plug it in one of those round ports. (green and purple)

I believe that those ports are the "older" ones, so yeah it would be that the keyboard was too old for my PC and unusable or whatever.

Anyhow, that's helped and it's working now... @hari1987 I appreciate your try for help, but since your suggestion didn't work I cannot chose your answer for as a solution, to prevent any misunderstandings if someone else ran into the same problem and dig his way through this website and this thread, I do thank you for your help though.

SOLUTION> GET A USB EXTENSION. (Or whatever, I'm not sure how is it called)
Just mention it to anyone who's familiar with PC's more than I am, and he'll know and tell you more about it.
That would be it from me folks, I'll be back if I ran into any PC problems, cya and keep up the good work @tomshardware staff!
 
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