Keyboard Lost Its Goodies

[Johnny Schmitt]

About six months ago (before I purchased Norton anti-virus), I got a bad
virus that damaged my hard drive. I purchased a new hard drive (two actually
and installed both), and since I have an HP computer, there wasn't an OS or
recovery CD. So I purchased a WinXP Pro full install CD.

My computer is a HP Presario 7965 - running a Pentium 4 at 1.8 ghz with 512
mb memory and two hard drives that are 80 gb each. And of course, now
running XP Pro.

Here is my problem:

The keyboard it came with is connected by USB. It is a multi-media and has a
series of "special" buttons along the top that let you connect to the
internet, run the DVD player, etc. After re-installing XP I realized that
the drivers running the keyboard must now be generic MS because everything
works except those "special" buttons. Oh yeah, they also used to have a
pretty blue light that shone around each one and now they are gone. LOL

I tried downloading an HP keyboard driver from their website, but after
installing it, it didn't change anything. Is there another, possibly
generic, keboard driver out there I can use to make my multi-media stuff
work again?

Thanks!

Johnny

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Johnny,

You guessed correctly, this is related to the keyboard driver. Unless HP can
supply you with one that fully supports the multimedia functions, you are
probably out of luck.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Johnny Schmitt]

Well, Hp didn't have a full driver only an upgrade to an existing one. So I
did a search on the web and found a full HP multi-media keyboard driver with
installation and everything works great now.

Johnny