Keyboard not working in BootCamp when VMware or Parallels is installed. . .

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Keyboard not working in BootCamp when VMware or Parallels is installed. . .

When I install VMware or Parallels and try to reboot in to BootCamp witch is using Windows XP Pro on my MacBook Pro I can't use the keyboard at all keyboard don't work at all when VM is in stalled booted in to BootCamp why don't the keyboard work and how do I fix this so I can have VMware or Parallels installed and use VMware or Parallels and boot up with BootCamp and use the keyboard? When I remove VMware or Parallels and try to boot in to BootCamp the keyboard work fine what is going on when VMware or Parallels when it is installed why can't I use my Keyboard in BootCamp?

I even looked for drivers for BootCamp on the OS X 10.5 startup CD.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.3), BootCamp with Windows XP Pro

Posted on Jun 9, 2008 8:45 AM

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Jun 10, 2008 10:38 AM in response to MacSHol

I am having the same issue. Any figure out a fix?

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Jun 10, 2008 8:28 PM in response to Chris Van Buskirk1

Not yet let me know if you here any thing for now I had to delete the Vm and just stick with BootCamp I needed for school. I hop I fiend out soon be for my class on Macs. I will need to use VM and BootCamp on that day in my class.

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Jun 15, 2008 4:47 AM in response to MacSHol

I also get this problem on my MacBook running Leopard 10.5.3 with the latest version of Parallels. Except in my case, neither the keyboard or mouse works - even different ones plugged through USB. Before the Vista SP1 everything was fine, and now I can't do anything except in Parallels which is actually slower and more sluggish than it used to be.

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RTSPC

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Jun 20, 2008 4:22 PM in response to MacSHol

Same problem here. Had done all the updates OS X 10.5.3 and Parallels on the mac side and Bootcamp 2.1 on the Pc side. Just happened to try bootcamp and mouse, trackpad and keyboard don't respond. Can't even get to try and reload drivers from the Leopard disc. Any ideas????

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Jul 2, 2008 8:45 AM in response to MacSHol

add me to the list. I hadn't booted or used parallels in almost a year but this week I needed to do use windows and in part of getting everything going I updated parallels to the newest and when I went to boot windows, no KB/M.

VERY annoying.

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Jul 16, 2008 10:47 AM in response to MacSHol

I ran into this same issue, but I was able to fix it. Turns out windows just needed the drivers for the keyboard and trackpad again, but you have to boot up using BootCamp to make it work. The way to do that is to boot up your BootCamp partition using parallels, and use a registry hack to enable auto-logon. Then reboot into WinXP (without parallels) and it should log you in and install the drivers. Worked for me, your mileage my vary.

M$ support page on how to enable auto-logon: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315231

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Jul 29, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Geoffrey Myers

Where do I get the drivers at?

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Aug 7, 2008 9:01 AM in response to MacSHol

You don't need to get the drivers from anywhere. They're already in Windows. It's a nifty little glitch with M$ that you have to be logged in for Windows to automatically reinstall the keyboard driver, but you can't log in if you don't have a keyboard driver.
I think what happens is that Parallels makes some changes to the Windows install, and those changes can cause Windows to forget it has the driver. When you log in, Windows goes "Oh, here they are, let me reinstall these real quick."

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