Mac partition no longer recognizes keyboard

Hi,
Recently when I restarted my computer I got a weird notification that said it was going to update th "BIOS" on my MacBook pro. This alone seemed weird since macs don't use bios... but before I could do anything about it my computer initiated the restart and when it booted up to my lock screen, the keyboard was unresponsive. on top of this, anything plugged into the USB ports is unresponsive as well. I was afraid my computer was shot, but I tried a hard restart and I could still hold option and select my windows partition to boot from. after it loaded, my keyboard and USB peripherals still worked well. Any ideas on what the problem could be and what I might be able to do to fix it?

imho then bootcamp is not much more troublesome then installing a clean install of windows on a computer which didn't have it preinstalled but for many people thats not for them
other then that macs really really like to use the apple bootcamp drivers letting windows update or manually installing driver mean you're gonna have a bad time
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