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Wireless Keyboard and Mouse drivers. Win 7, iMac 5K

I have gotten Windows 7 Ultimate running on 2014 iMac 5K with 3 TB Fusion drive.

The problem is that some drivers are not working as well as an older installation we have on a 2010 iMac with Windows 7.

Specifically:

keyboard screen brightness and sound volume controls do not work
magic mouse scrolling is jerky and useless
wireless trackpad tap stuff isn’t quite right
bluetooth input devices take a few seconds to get recognized first time.

I used BCA to create a USB 2.0 Win 7 install disk with BCA-selected boot camp drivers, and BCA ran the Boot Camp installation normally right after Windows installation. (screen brightness and volume controls on keyboard did not work).

Then I did many rounds of Windows Update and eventually wound up with an updated SP1 installation. I went into the BootCamp folder on the USB 2 installation drive and ran Setup again. Screen brightness and volume controls on keyboard still do not work.

The version of Boot Camp is 5769, according to the XML.

In Device Manager there are no warning icons. But I don’t think some of the drivers look right. The keyboard driver, for example, shows up as HID Keyboard Device from Microsoft, dated 2006. The mouse and trackpad both show up as Microsoft 2006 era HID-compliant mice.

Can this be corrected easily, for example by using a slightly different version of the Boot Camp, or first changing some Microsoft settings before re-installing Boot Camp drivers? Or by installing specific drivers for the keyboard, mouse and trackpad? I am installing from an administrator account, but is there some additional setting for permissions?

Thanks!

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 3 TB Fusion

Posted on Jul 19, 2015 9:18 AM

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Suzanne S Author

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Jul 20, 2015 10:35 PM in response to Loner T

You ROCK! The first command put the errant partition back under Macintosh HD, and the second allowed BCA to now say it is willing to erase Win 7 and let me start over! Based on the requested output below, is it safe for that to be my next step?

Retinia:~ suzanne$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

+-- Logical Volume Group 10815421-827B-46CE-8DAE-C51C0253866B

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 2814587740160 B (2.8 TB)

Free Space: 159744 B (159.7 KB)

+-< Physical Volume 7792825B-4118-4062-BF46-0796BDC5D813

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

+-< Physical Volume 85F07FD5-3B8C-47EC-BC52-3349009E038F

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk1s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 1892162347008 B (1.9 TB)

+-< Physical Volume 97F265B9-9021-4FDF-B6B1-D3C1FB1B252D

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 2

| Disk: disk1s6

| Status: Online

| Size: 801436540928 B (801.4 GB)

+-> Logical Volume Family 5DDEF125-8B96-4CC6-BA0B-452F2A4971B8

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Encryption Type: None

Conversion Status: NoConversion

Conversion Direction: -none-

Has Encrypted Extents: No

Fully Secure: No

Passphrase Required: No

+-> Logical Volume 3ACF34D7-A79E-4B1B-B5E2-07AA5289177C

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk2

Status: Online

Size (Total): 2808446976000 B (2.8 TB)

Conversion Progress: -none-

Revertible: No

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Retinia:~ suzanne$ diskutil list disk1

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 1.9 TB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.1 MB disk1s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 305.9 GB disk1s4

5: Apple_CoreStorage 801.4 GB disk1s6

6: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s7

_____________________________

Here is the output generated when your brilliant commands executed:

Retinia:~ suzanne$ diskutil cs delete 48B6F8A3-963C-482E-8E16-BECF81EB739A

The Core Storage Logical Volume Group UUID is 48B6F8A3-963C-482E-8E16-BECF81EB739A

Started CoreStorage operation

Destroying Logical Volume Group

Erasing disk1s4

Initialized /dev/rdisk1s4 as a 285 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 24576k journal

Mounting disk

Finished CoreStorage operation

Retinia:~ suzanne$ diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk1s4

Started erase on disk1s4 Untitled

Unmounting disk

Erasing

4096 bytes per physical sector

/dev/rdisk1s4: 597247488 sectors in 9331992 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)

bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=3697309696 drv=0x80 bsec=597393400 bspf=72912 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6

Mounting disk

Finished erase on disk1s4 BOOTCAMP

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 20, 2015 10:39 PM in response to Loner T

Or, further to my previous question, is it safe to try a Winclone restoration of another installation? Or have I lost some Windows bootability magic in al of this?

Loner T

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Jul 20, 2015 10:40 PM in response to Suzanne S

Please post the output of

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

This will show us the MBR.

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 21, 2015 12:12 AM in response to Loner T

Retinia:~ suzanne$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Password:

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 97451/255/63 [1565565872 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 3695629584] <Unknown ID>

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [3696039224 - 1269760] Darwin Boot

4: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [3697309696 - 597393400] Win95 FAT-32

abedin94

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Jul 21, 2015 5:31 AM in response to funkyfxxker

I have the exact same problem . Did you found the solution ?
So close but not perfect 😟

abedin94

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Jul 21, 2015 5:35 AM in response to Loner T

I am facing stuck at Username problem . I am using a usb 2.0 stick . But i don't have any usb 2.0 port . All usb 3.0 .
late 2014 mac mini.
Would you help please? 😟

Loner T

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Jul 21, 2015 6:27 AM in response to abedin94

Please start a new discussion and post the output of the commands used in this thread. This avoids confusion between users and issues diagnosis.

Loner T

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Jul 21, 2015 6:55 AM in response to Suzanne S

Suzanne S wrote:

4: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [3697309696 - 597393400] Win95 FAT-32

This matches

3697309696 597393400 4 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

Please install Windows and test.

Loner T

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Jul 21, 2015 7:48 AM in response to Suzanne S

Suzanne S wrote:

Or, further to my previous question, is it safe to try a Winclone restoration of another installation? Or have I lost some Windows bootability magic in al of this?

I would refrain from a Winclone Restore at this point. Let us try a clean fresh install.

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 21, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Loner T

OK.

Clean, fresh install using BCA to wipe the slate clean and start over recreating the partition, or clean fresh install to the Fat partition you re-created, by trying to boot from the previously created Win7 Installer USB drive with BootCamp drivers on it?

Thanks.

Loner T

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Jul 21, 2015 9:25 AM in response to Suzanne S

Let us use the current partition. If that does not work, we can let BCA delete it and start from the very first step.

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 21, 2015 9:29 AM in response to Loner T

Further clarification:

I was considering the Winclone approach because my previous installation, with the weird inability to install the keyboard driver, that eventually self-destructed after fiddling with Language settings, was a clean, fresh install from the installer, not a Winclone restore.

Happy enough to go in any of the four directions:

Use BCA to wipe the old, resurrected FAT partition and re-create a new one.
Clean fresh install into this resurrected FAT partition
Winclone restore into this resurrected, originally BCA-created, FAT partition.
Winclone restore into a new BCA-created partition. (Although not sure at what point I would be supposed to abort the BCA installation process, as it proceeds directly from creating eh partition to Windows installation.)

Are you recommending option 1 or option 2?

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 21, 2015 9:31 AM in response to Loner T

Oops, crossed in the mail!

I shall proceed with the current partition.

Loner T

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Jul 21, 2015 9:32 AM in response to Suzanne S

I suggest the following order - 2, 3, 1. As you mention, 4 is tricky.

Suzanne S Author

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Jul 21, 2015 10:38 AM in response to Loner T

Option 1 (boot from Win Installer stick):

Boots to "select language" screen, but BT keyboard and mouse will not respond.

Waited 10 min or so, and still no response. (I waited because last time I did this, I had left BCA doing its thing while I went to dinner, and it had been sitting a long time. When I got back, keyboard worked but mouse did't. Later, still in Windows install screens, mouse started working too. Weird.)

So, have I not waited long enough, or is it that BCA does something to make BT mouse and keyboard functional right before starting Win Installer, which of course I skipped this time?

Is there a simple thing I can do to fix this? Otherwise I will proceed to attempt Winclone restore to this partition.

Language question. The screen it is stuck on is the Language Installation. The Language to Install box just says "English". I wanted mouse or cursor controls to be able to check if there was a more affirmative "English (US)" response available. Last time I just hit the "N" key to accept the defaults. Is there a better selection if only I could see it? See screen cap:

Wireless Keyboard and Mouse drivers. Win 7, iMac 5K