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August 8th, 2011 10:00

sk-8115 driver

I have an SK-8115 Dell USB keyboard attached to my laptop, which dual-boots Ubuntu and Windows 7 x64. It works fine in Ubuntu, but doesn't work at all in Win7, and I can't find the driver. (Windows can't find its driver automatically.) Please help.

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August 9th, 2011 09:00

• 104-key Thin USB Keyboard for Desktop and Notebook systems

• Model part #s: RT7D50, SK-8115

• Compatible part #s: J4628, DJ331, W7658, L100

Its a standard keyboard.  Cherry-branded keyboards of this type use the standard USB HID driver.

Not sure what you mean by cant get it working in windows.

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August 9th, 2011 09:00

Driver Software Installation gives a "No driver found" error. Windows can't find the driver.

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August 9th, 2011 10:00

That was supposed to be "my mouse and another standard keyboard".

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My mouse and standard keyboard work fine, but for some reason this keyboard doesn't (but it works in Ubuntu, so it's not a hardware problem). I'll try system recovery from my Windows 7 disk, but I don't think that'll help, as the problem is that Windows isn't downloading the drivers.

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August 9th, 2011 10:00

If you cannot install a standard HID keyboard or mouse your basic windows install may be infected with

USB Malware.  PC no longer responds to the USB keyboard or mouse.

If that does not work and you don't have another keyboard and mouse to try, you are going to have to try to do a system repair.  It sounds like the drivers for these devices got corrupted somehow.  You will need to boot from your Vista/WIN7 DVD and run system recovery. 

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx#EX

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August 10th, 2011 06:00

The keyboard is a standard keyboard.  There is some other issue like USB Malware, Missing Chipset drivers, power requirements of 500ma not being met or some other issue. Make sure Legacy USB is enabled in Bios.  This model Keyboard has USB Hub built in.

You CANNOT CASCADE Non Powered Hubs.

Therefore you must plug into ports that provide 500ma min power or put a Powered Hub with wall adapter In between the keyboard and the Machine.

There are plenty of non-compliant devices that use more than 100 mA without announcing this fact (or indeed sometimes without identifying themselves as USB devices at all). These hubs and devices do allow more flexibility in the use of power (in particular many devices use far less than 100 mA and many USB ports can supply more than 500 mA before going into overload shut-off) but they are likely to make power problems harder to diagnose.

Some powered hubs do not supply enough power to support a 500mA load on every port which is REQUIRED for passive hubs like the one in the keyboard.

There are also Limitations on Extender cables and overall length.   I had a user that insisted that keyboards were bad after having put 5 USB extensions in series under the table and then pretending that she didn't do that after we told her it would not work.

USB 1.0 Devices ARE NOT ALLOWED to have extension cables.

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