Win 10 BootCamp on El Capitan. No Keyboard/mouse :(

[iHateMacs]

Hi,

I had Windows 8.1 running in BootCamp so I could play GTA V. Everything was going fine.

I fancied upgrading to Win 10 so I gave it a go.

The update worked ok and I was using it for a few minutes before I used Apple Software Update to download whatever it downloads.

Now when I boot up in Windows I see a nice lock screen but I cannot get past it as the keyboard and mouse are not recognised. My mouse does not light up. It does during booting and flashes on a off a few times but stays off once booted.

If I press the power button on the back of the iMac, windows will shutdown.

I am using a late 2013 iMac as per my signature.

Is there a way to fix this without having to remove the partition and install win 10 fresh with bootcamp assistant?

 

[brdeveloper]

Hi,

I had Windows 8.1 running in BootCamp so I could play GTA V. Everything was going fine.

I fancied upgrading to Win 10 so I gave it a go.

The update worked ok and I was using it for a few minutes before I used Apple Software Update to download whatever it downloads.

Now when I boot up in Windows I see a nice lock screen but I cannot get past it as the keyboard and mouse are not recognised. My mouse does not light up. It does during booting and flashes on a off a few times but stays off once booted.

If I press the power button on the back of the iMac, windows will shutdown.

I am using a late 2013 iMac as per my signature.

Is there a way to fix this without having to remove the partition and install win 10 fresh with bootcamp assistant?

I'll say what solved to me:

1. Have in hands wired keyboard and mouse;
2. Start OSX;
3. Unpair/Remove both Magic Mouse and Keyboard;
4. Start Windows;
5. Try pairing the bluetooth stuff. Make sure your devices are in "pairing" mode (i.e. blinking);
6. Restart on OSX and repair the removed devices.

The procedure above allowed me to have mouse and keyboard working in both systems.

If that doesn't work, it may be a driver issue. In this case, I'd extract the Bootcamp drivers and install them one by one. Make sure you're installing the right driver for each device. In my case, I also had to download a Broadcom installer from Broadcom site for having bluetooth properly working on my Mini 2010. Good luck!

 

[iHateMacs]

Thanks for the suggestions, I should have mentioned that the keyboard and mouse are wired already.

I did try to install drivers to the bootcamp partition from within OSX but I could not get any of the tricks to write to an NTFS drive to work :-/

The odd thing is, Yesterday I worked fine then after a reboot it didn't. So frustrating.