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    Solved! Sony Vaio VGN FZ140E Keyboard Not Working after Drive Swap

    Ok, this is really strange now. As an experiment, I took the original hard drive, slapped it back in the machine, put a new partition on it, and set the system up for dual booting - win7 and 10. Windows 10 runs just fine and the keboard works. It shows up in the device manager as a standard PS/2...
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    Solved! Sony Vaio VGN FZ140E Keyboard Not Working after Drive Swap

    Yes, I did boot into safe mode but that didn't do anything. The thing I don't understand is why doesn't the keyboard show up at all in the device manager. Keyboard Filter does show up, but not the keyboard. I've tried turning the filter off and on, and that doesn't appear to do anything either.
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    Solved! Sony Vaio VGN FZ140E Keyboard Not Working after Drive Swap

    Unfortunately I can't delete the keyboard driver because it never shows up in the device manager. Oddly enough, the built in touchpad and buttons work just fine, but the keyboard just doesn't show. It doesn't work in safemode either but when I boot using the original hard driver and windows 7...
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    Solved! Sony Vaio VGN FZ140E Keyboard Not Working after Drive Swap

    I had an old Vaio sitting in a closet that I decided to put back to work after another computer died. I swapped out the old drive in it with a new one. Everything works fine except the built in keyboard. A USB keyboard will work just fine. Also, I know that the built in keyboard works because...