Windows 8 Login Screen - Mouse/Keyboard Stop Working

Anonymous
2012-10-31T18:09:52+00:00

I was on my computer when I got a BSOD on Windows 8 -- It restarted and when it's booting my keyboard lights up, and my mouse. Once I get to the welcome screen both turn off and stop working. I've enabled USB Legacy support in the BIOS and I've also tried every one of my USB ports. I do not have a PS2 port so that is not an option. I've tried doing Shift + F8 during boot to get to the recovery console and no luck there either. This is really frustrating.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-10T11:30:55+00:00

    For all of you out there, here is what works for me, after looking on the net for hours I was searching for the blackscreen fix and here it is:

    • kill your computer

    if you have any kind of switch on the sockets, where you have plugged it in, just turn it off.

    I know, that this is not a "good" fix, but for me and a friend of mine, it worked.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-28T12:26:05+00:00

    I'm having the same problem here, i'm doing system restore everytime i shutdown my pc, otherwise keyboard and mouse not working.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-24T14:59:53+00:00

    I also experience this problem after weeks of using Windows 8.   I disabled 'USB Legacy Support' in the BIOS and everything works fine.  Thanks for solution Eric.   [ I will also see with time... ]

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-19T10:34:20+00:00

    As suggested in the forum below, I have set the USB Legcy mode to "Disabled" and it seems to have fixed my problem. At least after 5 reboots no problem. Let see with time.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/991e94d9-359f-4f81-960b-7c4e8c9e768f

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-12-17T11:17:53+00:00

    Tried without any success. But now only the first controller is in error and need disabling/re-enabling...

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