All USB ports seemed to have stopped working

DarkDeceiver

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I'm currently typing this on my mother's computer.

Just today, all my USB ports stopped working, on front and back. I had left to go to the store, and left my phone behind in charge mode, plugged into my computer, since it was almost dead. When I got back, I plugged my little yellow Eclipse MP3 in to charge it. I got on my computer, moved the mouse, and nothing worked. Tried alt-tabbing out, computer was unresponsive. It was completely frozen.

I turned it off manually, and back on. It was slow starting up, and when the screen turned black and the information was being displayed, it said "Keyboard failure." I left it fully boot up, which took much longer than before, and neither my computer nor my mouse worked. My mouse's light on the bottom is on, but it does not work. My keyboard doesn't even turn on. I turned it off, unplugged everything, and turned it back on. Still booted up slowly. When it was fully up, I plugged my keyboard and mouse back in, and the system didn't recognize the USB device and says it malfunctioned.

I turned it off yet again and this time borrowed my mother's wireless mouse. When the computer was on and at the desktop, I plugged the wireless in. Mouse's light turns on, doesn't work. The notification about the USB doesn't even appear anymore.

The same goes for her wireless keyboard, my younger brother's mouse and keyboard, and my own.

My phone's charger works, and even recharges my phone, though the media/charge options for it don't appear, oddly enough. The battery light near the two USB ports on the front of the computer tower is blinking, but barely, you can't really make it out.

So nothing works. I can't boot it up in safe mode because no keyboards work, I can't access the start menu because no mice work, nothing. I turn it off and back on, and it starts up slowly. I literally have no options of my own to fix this.

Can anyone help me?

EDIT: I just got my computer to work again. I left it completely unplugged while I was making this thread, and when I turned it back on, everything worked. The battery icon is glowing steadily now, blinking so you can actually see it.