After much reserch I determined it was an issue with the new USB controller on the Z170 and legacy built in cntroller that steelseries uses. However once I was up and runninng on the z170-A motherboard it would cut out, aka the keys would now longer respond but the lights remain lit. My Apex worked totally fine on my 990FX system. I used to to use the Original APEX RGB until I upgraded from my old AMD Sabertooth 990FX R 2.0 to a new I5 6600k Skylake. If there are any other Steelseries users out there with more ideas, it would be great to try a little brainstorming. Overall, I like this keyboard and mouse a lot, but I'd love to see a more robust utility for managing the firmware. I'd like to try re-flashing the keyboard's BIOS, but all I've encountered is auto-updaters in a few of the driver updates, and once it's done flashing, there doesn't seem to be any reset/re-flash options. Perhaps someone's discovered a useful tweak in the Asus BIOS that might help USB detection and behavior? I tend to think that Steelseries still needs to work out a few issues in their firmware. So on every computer I've connected these two, there have been various issues with how they interact with USB. Also, the mouse will wake the PC from sleep fine, but using the keyboard will cause it to be dropped completely.

Sometimes re-plugging it will fix it, other times I must shut down completely and restart.

On my Maximus VIII Hero, usually the keyboard and mouse will be fine (and always are fine in BIOS screens) but once the USB bus resets before booting Windows, sometimes the keyboard will come up only partially illuminated again. On the ThinkPad, the keyboard wouldn't fully illuminate during POST (only the main keyboard and the numpad section, none of the F-keys, and then would be fine once Windows booted. On the Mac Mini, the mouse would sometimes fail to be detected at wake from sleep but the keyboard was fine. I don't think this problem is specific to ROG boards - I've had similar issues with the same two devices plugged into a Mac Mini (late 2009 model) and a Z61 ThinkPad. I also have a Steelseries keyboard and mouse - Original Apex and Rival. I have changed the settings inĭevice Manager and ticked of all ''Let the computer turn this of.'' on all USB-Devices linked to the keyboard and mouse. Thats why I hope I can get some help from ROG as the problem can be something with the motherboard. Where they worked without a single problem on his computer. Just want to RMA the keyboard and mouse, they do not want to find any solutions with this problem. It is usually the keyboard that needs to be re-plugged but it happens with the mouse as well. I have to re-plug them sometime to get them to work. I have a Steelseries Mouse (Wireless Sensei) and keyboard (Apex M800). Hello! First post and happy to be part of the famous ROG community

Mouse not working after sleep