No Keyboard or Sound After Reinstall


  1. Posts : 356
    Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
       #1

    No Keyboard or Sound After Reinstall


    O.k, Here we go again......just reinstalled W10 on a little Lenovo Ideapad 100s.....not very powerful but runs W 10 o.k......up to date, and running the latest version.....However, since the reinstall I have no keyboard, mouse, or sound.......tried most things suggested, to no avail......any ideas welcomed.......

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    Sorry !!.....Apparently I asked the same question, back in April 2023.......all now sorted, same as before, by downloading the Intel driver........I must be getting forgetful !!.........
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  2. Posts : 4,158
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #2

    A quick tip for the future:

    You can export ALL drivers from your current installation and keep a backup. Then, if you ever reinstall, just run a single command or perform one quick operation in Device Manager and ALL of your drivers will be reinstalled in one easy operation. Here is how...

    On your currently working system, open an elevated command prompt and run these commands:

    md C:\Drivers_Backup
    pnputil /export-driver * C:\Drivers_Backup


    That's it for the export. Now just save that C:\Drivers_Backup folder to somewhere safe until you need it.

    To install all those drivers:

    Again, open an elevated command prompt and run the following command (pointing to wherever you saved the drivers):

    pnputil /add-driver D:\Drivers_Backup\*.inf /subdirs /install

    There is another way to import the drivers back into Windows. I know this works on Win 11, not certain about Win 10:

    Open Device Manager. At the top of the device tree, right-click your computer name, select Add drivers, point it to your backed up drivers. Make sure to include subdirectories.

    That is the easy way that I recommend. If you want to take it a step further, you could actually inject all of those drivers into your Windows image and that way they will automatically get installed when you install Windows. Very few people want to do that, but should this be of interest to you, I can provide instructions. Please be aware that it's a bit of work
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  3. Posts : 317
    Windows 10
       #3

    If you are not happy with your new install you could "go back to an earlier version of windows" and if you made a restore point and it is functional you could use the restore point to bring you back to your previous version if available. Sometimes the restore point will not function unless the same/similar version of windows is running, as newer installs can make the feature not work correctly.


    .................
    If you have a Windows.Old folder then it will contain all the .inf files and drivers from your previous installation. You should be able to point to the Windows.Old folder ( better yet the INF directory but sometimes the drivers are elsewhere ) and anything that is not installed correctly or installed should install.

    A slight chance you might want to disable your anti-virus software in my opinion might get in the way of that action.
    You might want to take ownership of the folder.

    In my opinion Disabling Integrity checks, basically Microsoft does not want you to install any driver unless that company pays there fee. So if you home make a driver and do not list it under something that is allowed, it will not allow you to install the driver. The same with various driver installs for various devices. Take Nvidia. I can install older drivers because the Integrity check
    has it listed but because I do not update windows and I wish to use new drivers ( even official or unofficial ) they will not allow me to proceed. It might install but the driver will not show or be %100 active. Only after doing this the later driver will install correctly.

    ...............

    I know it is a lot tweaking you might have to do when you do a fresh install or update
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