This is a bug I have personally never encountered before, and I'm stumped.
It shows like this, suddenly windows no longer reacts to mouse clicks, and not any "ordinary" keys on the keyboard.
Win-key always works, and ctrl alt delete works, although just to a point.
Start menu shows up, but cant click and mouse doesn't highlight anything.
But I can see the pointer etc, sometimes pressing ctraltdel, and logging out works (THAT menu all buttons usually work)
It doesn't appear to be any software doing it, nothing boots any more with windows. burner software etc, everything with drivers gone.
I can't find a culprit, it's completely random, sometimes when reading the cd, sometimes when just minimizing an application, and sometimes it doesn't happen for several minutes.
I installed and started a game which I played for 2 hours on it, then back to desktop, and nothing worked again.
Occasionally a re-login unlocks everything again, sometimes it just doesn't work at all until reboot..
There's an ECS Nforce 4 based AM2 mobo in there, which is the only non standard item in. New bios, and new drivers, nothing altered anything.
Mouse and KB separate but have been replaced. Used PS2 and USB, no change.
Big oddity is the computer never locks up, if an installation is going, it goes to finish just like nothing, windows just never reacts to clicks or button presses.
Bust mobo?
It shows like this, suddenly windows no longer reacts to mouse clicks, and not any "ordinary" keys on the keyboard.
Win-key always works, and ctrl alt delete works, although just to a point.
Start menu shows up, but cant click and mouse doesn't highlight anything.
But I can see the pointer etc, sometimes pressing ctraltdel, and logging out works (THAT menu all buttons usually work)
It doesn't appear to be any software doing it, nothing boots any more with windows. burner software etc, everything with drivers gone.
I can't find a culprit, it's completely random, sometimes when reading the cd, sometimes when just minimizing an application, and sometimes it doesn't happen for several minutes.
I installed and started a game which I played for 2 hours on it, then back to desktop, and nothing worked again.
Occasionally a re-login unlocks everything again, sometimes it just doesn't work at all until reboot..
There's an ECS Nforce 4 based AM2 mobo in there, which is the only non standard item in. New bios, and new drivers, nothing altered anything.
Mouse and KB separate but have been replaced. Used PS2 and USB, no change.
Big oddity is the computer never locks up, if an installation is going, it goes to finish just like nothing, windows just never reacts to clicks or button presses.
Bust mobo?