MS Internet Keyboard driver intermittently fails to load...

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I don't have this problem with the keyboard in Windows 98 or 2000, but
in Windows XP (Pro), every so often the driver for the Microsoft
Internet Keyboard (this one here...
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=021
) fails to load. I can tell when this happens because the num-lock key
doesn't light up. (I have the numlock key activated on my user account,
not globally.) Mousing over to the Device Manager will always confirm
this, with the entry under Keyboard marked with the yellow exclamation
point (!) sticker. Now, simply uninstalling the driver and having
Windows redetected it will bring the keyboard back to life, but this
gets annoyings after a while (especially after having to dismiss the
"Please Reboot" dialog without rebooting, because sometime after
rebooting, the keyboard dies again!) Is there something I can do to
keep this from happening again?

I'm using the keyboard driver that originally came on the disc with the
keyboard. According to Windows, the driver version is 2.20.447.0 dated
3/21/2002. The driver is named "Microsoft PS/2 Keyboard(IntelliType
Pro)".

 

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Thier has been driver version:4.01,5.0 now its at 5.5 Try updateing the
software/drivers from microsoft download center.Use the scroll bar to get
intellitype,then try 5.0 then 5.5 5.0 seems more stable and better for game
use if you do that,otherwise the newist is 5.5

"sterlingnorth@hotmail.com" wrote:

> I don't have this problem with the keyboard in Windows 98 or 2000, but
> in Windows XP (Pro), every so often the driver for the Microsoft
> Internet Keyboard (this one here...
> http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=021
> ) fails to load. I can tell when this happens because the num-lock key
> doesn't light up. (I have the numlock key activated on my user account,
> not globally.) Mousing over to the Device Manager will always confirm
> this, with the entry under Keyboard marked with the yellow exclamation
> point (!) sticker. Now, simply uninstalling the driver and having
> Windows redetected it will bring the keyboard back to life, but this
> gets annoyings after a while (especially after having to dismiss the
> "Please Reboot" dialog without rebooting, because sometime after
> rebooting, the keyboard dies again!) Is there something I can do to
> keep this from happening again?
>
> I'm using the keyboard driver that originally came on the disc with the
> keyboard. According to Windows, the driver version is 2.20.447.0 dated
> 3/21/2002. The driver is named "Microsoft PS/2 Keyboard(IntelliType
> Pro)".
>
>

 

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Wow... that's what I get for just relying on Windows Update... sheesh.
I'll try it now.
Andrew E. wrote:
> Thier has been driver version:4.01,5.0 now its at 5.5 Try updateing
the
> software/drivers from microsoft download center.Use the scroll bar
to get
> intellitype,then try 5.0 then 5.5 5.0 seems more stable and better
for game
> use if you do that,otherwise the newist is 5.5

 

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I probably should have waited before posting before. Or at least, I
should have asked where to download the new driver. Apparently what I
downloaded from Microsoft (
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod=pk_mk&os=xp&lang=en&driverVersion=IntelliType%20Pro%205.2
) is not in fact the driver mentioned by Andrew E. but something
completely different -- Intellitype Pro 5.2. Whatever Intellitype Pro
does, it does not fix the problem of the driver occassionally not
loading (which is in fact the same driver from my original post).

Now, where can I actually download the updated driver?