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Anonymous Posted on Jan 16, 2009

Dell SK-8115 USB Keyboard on none Dell PC Issues

My original PS2 keyboard died and I obtained a new Dell SK-8115 USB keyboard and installed it - or rather I finally did after solving all the HID problems which occured and reinstalled the files and activated the HID service, which took me almost a week to figure out!

Unfortunately, whilst the keyboard works during POST as soon as operation is passed to Windows it freezes: the NumLock light stays on but there's no reaction to pressing any of the keys. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling everything, even configuring it as a PS2 keyboard, with no success. The only time I thought I solved the problem was when I inserted the USB cable into one of the two USB slots on my Dell screen, the NumLock, Scroll and Shift keys worked but then froze. I tried unplugging/reinserting/rebooting as USB/PS2 configuration but now the the result is the same whichever USB port I plug it into.

This is driving me absolutely nuts! Can anyone suggest a solution, please.

  • Anonymous Jan 17, 2009

    hi and thanks for the advice, which I've followed without success and my USB mouse has now stopped working too!

  • Anonymous Jan 26, 2009

    Hi, I've solved this issue by carrying out a repair (install). Thanks to everyone for their help.

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Have you gone in and removed the usb drivers by doing the following.

1.) right click on my computer
2.) select properties
3.) Select Hardware tab
4.)Select device manager
Then remove all instances of usb that you can.
You may have to try this using just the mouse for navigation. Right click on usb item then select uninstall. Remove all the ones you can then reboot the computer. You may have to reboot a couple times
Then try the keyboard it should work no problem


  • Anonymous Jan 16, 2009

    Remove all the usb items you can by right clicking on them and selecting uninstall. reboot and you should be good.



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