No USB Mouse or Keyboard control after Windows 7 boots

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I changed motherboards and had a dual boot SSD with Windows 10 and Windows 7, I got Win10 working perfectly, but as for Windows 7, I have only managed to get it "Bootable".

I can't do nothing with it, because after it passes BIOS and POST, I get the flash screen then it startup to the desktop as normal, but no Mouse or Keyboard or input.

My motherboard is a GIGABYTE MW21-SE0 (U3E1) workstation, My main suspect is the BIOS settings and its 3.0 USB ports, and have got UEFI and Legacy, selected, and even tried Legacy only, but no Mouse or Keyboard. This MB does not have a PS/2 port either so cannot try that.

I just need some control on the OS, even if it just the keyboard so I can install the motherboard drivers for it.
 
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you need a USB header for the 2.0 ports. windows 7 has the 2.0 drivers installed but the only available ports is the 3.0 which need drivers for windows 7.
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iur/?f=1&image_host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.servethehome.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2FGigabyte-MW21-SE0-mATX1-600x323.jpg&u=https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Gigabyte-MW21-SE0-mATX1-600x323.jpg
plug in one of these
https://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/ProductImageCompressAll1280/A1NV_131375807291200227aE3AmITV9h.jpg?w=660&h=500
and then keyboard should work in windows 7.
 
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I got those 2 already connected in the front of the case, they do say 2.0 Usb ports but they seem to be treated just like USB3 ports, I tried plugging in a mouse and keyboard in those, motherboard beeps, light goes on on the devices, but no Windows 7 input.
 
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Certainly do not want lose hope and reinstall Windows 7, as i didn't have to reinstall 10, but yeah looks like this MB has beaten me one, due to it's lack of PS/2 port and lack of BIOS options.

I now attempted to inject USB 3.0 drivers into Seven from Win10, but no go.

Then thought, it I can get the network working, I then might be able to control it remotely from another machine, but with zero input, it's gonna require complicated offline registry edit.
 
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