Win7 Repair - No mouse or keyboard

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I know this is a very common problem, but I have tried everything, and nothing has worked.

New motherboard, old HDD. Trying to start normally from the HDD causes a flash bluescreen on startup, then back to BIOS. I was told to attempt to repair windows. Booting from a Win7 install disk, I have no mouse or keyboard control. I have tried:

- Only using the USB 2.0 ports on the front
- Using either the mouse or keyboard by themselves
- Different mice and keyboards
- All kinds of motherboard options (one thing at a time with changes reset after each attempt)
- There's no option for Windows Safe Mode. Just to start normally or to go to startup recovery.

I've spent all day on this. Not one step of the process has gone smoothly, but this is by far the most infuriating because even Google doesn't have anything else for me.
 
Usually with a new mobo you should do a fresh installation unless you bought the same model of your old mobo assuming you replaced it because it was defective or something like that.

As for your problem, check your BIOS for an option called "Legacy USB" or similar and make sure to enable it, that should activate your usb ports, also better if you use your ports at the back, maybe you didn't plug correctly the frontal ports to your mobo.
 

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Legacy is enabled by default, and I've even tried disabling it. Items plugged into the front ports work fine on the BIOS menu. A fresh install doesn't really matter, as it's the same problem: On the menu where I'd be doing that, there's no keyboard or mouse.
 

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Mobo: ASUS B350-PLUS
CPU: Ryzen R5 1600
GPU: Gtx 750 Ti
RAM: 8GB 3000Mhz (Currently, one of the sticks was DOA and caused problems until removed)
PSU: Corsair HX750

I just Googled PS2 mouse/kb, is that some old input format? Would this mobo be compatible with it?