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Fabrice
i'm experiencing some very odd behaviour with my computer lately, that
i have no idea how to troubleshoot.
at what seems to be random moments (approx. once a day), while surfing
the internet, suddenly i lose all controls of my keyboard and mouse as
if they got suddenly unplugged.
display is completely fine and i can see the mouse pointer, but any
keyboard and mouse action does nothing at all ( thus CTR+ALT+DELETE is
useless).
pressing "Num Lock" key doesn't switch the LED on/off.
OTOH, i'm using a KVM switch in conjunction with another computer and
that seems fine, i'm able to switch from the problematic computer to
the another using the "double-CTRL+1 -2" keyboard command.
i'm using XP pro SP2 with all the latest updates including those for
anti-virus and anti-spyware.
AFAIK, i didn't install any program or did anything specific to the OS
just before that started happening.
even though most of the time i am able to recognise the symptoms and
causes of Windows problems, this one has me stumped.
any pointers...
many thanks.
Fabrice
i have no idea how to troubleshoot.
at what seems to be random moments (approx. once a day), while surfing
the internet, suddenly i lose all controls of my keyboard and mouse as
if they got suddenly unplugged.
display is completely fine and i can see the mouse pointer, but any
keyboard and mouse action does nothing at all ( thus CTR+ALT+DELETE is
useless).
pressing "Num Lock" key doesn't switch the LED on/off.
OTOH, i'm using a KVM switch in conjunction with another computer and
that seems fine, i'm able to switch from the problematic computer to
the another using the "double-CTRL+1 -2" keyboard command.
i'm using XP pro SP2 with all the latest updates including those for
anti-virus and anti-spyware.
AFAIK, i didn't install any program or did anything specific to the OS
just before that started happening.
even though most of the time i am able to recognise the symptoms and
causes of Windows problems, this one has me stumped.
any pointers...
many thanks.
Fabrice