Dell Multimedia keyboard not working...

[jayno20]

Just got this, its a nice keyboard, but i cant get the media keys to work... it is a USB keyboard, it types fine... but the play button, stop button, mute button, volume, home key, my computer key, all that stuff doesnt work. the model number is SK8135 and it looks like this...

 

[Peddant]

Did you install the driver from the CD that came with the keyboard ?

If not go to the Device Manager,locate the keyboard and update the driver

using the CD.

 

[jayno20]

no drive cd came with it, and i cant seem to find any drivers online for it...

 

[Peddant]

I haven`t been able to find a driver either.Not even from Dell.

Try asking the people who sold you the thing,if they know anything about the drivers.

I know some Dell computers come with a drivers CD,that has drivers for multimedia kbs,

so if you know anyone with a Dell........

 

[jayno20]

I just plugged it into my dell laptop and it worked fine without any drivers..... what could be causing it not to work on my dell desktop?

 

[jayno20]

OK i figured it out, here's what the problem was if anyone has this problem in the future...

looking in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\HidServ\Parameters

I deleted the ServiceDll string (you might not have one) and manually created an EXPANDABLE string value called ServiceDll with the value %SystemRoot%\System32\hidserv.dll