Midi cables, dead?

I'm having a problem with midi communicating with Logic. From the very first time i plugged my midi cables into my US-122 Tascam interface, it automatically was hooked into logic and it was plug and play.
After a happy year of this, there is no midi communication going on. I've checked my ins and outs, reset my midi in logic, reset my US-122 and still nothing.
Could this just be one of my midi cables going bad or my super cheap midi keyboard that i bought at walmart years ago? Just wanna get some opinions before I go buy anything new if there's something i'm missing. thanks for any info!
happy holidays!

I've had MIDI cables go bad, even good ones. But...
Go to your environment's Clicks & Ports layer. Is there a connection between the physical input (sum) and the "to recording and thru" icon (and any intermediate objects that might be between those two objects)? In other words, is the cabling between the physical input, other objects, and the "to recording" icon intact?

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