- Feb 19, 2018
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I'm sorry if this has been posted before or this isn't the right section to post it in. I searched and couldn't find anyone with quite this same problem.
My wife has an older computer that she hates because it's so slow. I offered her my newer computer because it's nearly twice as fast and I rarely use it. However, she needed some programs on her hdd. So, I just pulled out my hard drive and stuck hers in my computer.
I boot up and go I to BIOS for no particular reason. I have mouse and keyboard control here. I exit w/o saving and boot into windows. Once in windows my mouse and keyboard no longer work. This is the same mouse and keyboard combo that were working on my computer with the original hdd. I can take the hdd out and put it back in her old computer and use the exact same keyboard and mouse and they work fine. I also tried wired USB mouse/keyboard combo and different wireless keyboard/mouse with the old hdd in the new computer and they don't work either.
I guess my question is could it be some kind of motherboard driver issue or is unrelated to hardware at all? It's really driving me crazy. Or maybe you can't just swap hard drives like I'm trying to do.
Running windows 10 64bit on both machines
Update:
As an experiment I plugged my cell phone into one of the USB ports to see if the computer would recognize it. My phone detected it was charging, but no response from the computer such as "new hardware found" etc.
My wife has an older computer that she hates because it's so slow. I offered her my newer computer because it's nearly twice as fast and I rarely use it. However, she needed some programs on her hdd. So, I just pulled out my hard drive and stuck hers in my computer.
I boot up and go I to BIOS for no particular reason. I have mouse and keyboard control here. I exit w/o saving and boot into windows. Once in windows my mouse and keyboard no longer work. This is the same mouse and keyboard combo that were working on my computer with the original hdd. I can take the hdd out and put it back in her old computer and use the exact same keyboard and mouse and they work fine. I also tried wired USB mouse/keyboard combo and different wireless keyboard/mouse with the old hdd in the new computer and they don't work either.
I guess my question is could it be some kind of motherboard driver issue or is unrelated to hardware at all? It's really driving me crazy. Or maybe you can't just swap hard drives like I'm trying to do.
Running windows 10 64bit on both machines
Update:
As an experiment I plugged my cell phone into one of the USB ports to see if the computer would recognize it. My phone detected it was charging, but no response from the computer such as "new hardware found" etc.
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