Mouse and Keyboard freeze at startup in Vista Ultimate 32

Hi,

I have been running a Vista Ultimate 32 SP 1 with 4G RAM for a year
now.
3 moths ago after a slew of updates from Vista, at start-up the Mose
and Keyboard began freezing. It would happen at the initial boot almost
every time.
If I hard restarted the machine then it would boot normally and they
would not freeze once the system is running though.
I thought it may be the latest Nvidia graphic driver ( I have the
GT9600 ) so I rolled back to the initial one which was working
perfectly. I also updated to SP2.

Now it keeps happening randomly. And it is infuriating!

What is going on?

Any help please?


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emantod

Hi, emantod.

You didn't give us the most pertinent information: What make and model of
mouse and keyboard?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100

"emantod" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been running a Vista Ultimate 32 SP 1 with 4G RAM for a year
> now.
> 3 moths ago after a slew of updates from Vista, at start-up the Mose
> and Keyboard began freezing. It would happen at the initial boot almost
> every time.
> If I hard restarted the machine then it would boot normally and they
> would not freeze once the system is running though.
> I thought it may be the latest Nvidia graphic driver ( I have the
> GT9600 ) so I rolled back to the initial one which was working
> perfectly. I also updated to SP2.
>
> Now it keeps happening randomly. And it is infuriating!
>
> What is going on?
>
> Any help please?
>
>
> --
> emantod

Hey RC

It is a an USB apple pro keyboard and a USB wired Mini Optical 3DMouse.

Thank you


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emantod

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:45:12 -0500, emantod wrote:

> Hey RC
>
> It is a an USB apple pro keyboard and a USB wired Mini Optical 3DMouse.
>
> Thank you

Maybe it's a conspiracy by Microsoft. (I'm really just kidding!)

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Finally got the hang of the FREEZE/HANGUP

It disappeared once I kept the PS/2 keyboard plugged in as well as the
USB keyboard. So now I run it with 2 keyboards.

VERY WEIRD!!! VERY ANNOYING!!

I don't think that VISTA recognizes USB keyboard on startup, unless you
restart manually after the FREEZE.


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emantod

Here's what emantod wrote on 9/07/09:
> Finally got the hang of the FREEZE/HANGUP

> It disappeared once I kept the PS/2 keyboard plugged in as well as the
> USB keyboard. So now I run it with 2 keyboards.

> VERY WEIRD!!! VERY ANNOYING!!

> I don't think that VISTA recognizes USB keyboard on startup, unless you
> restart manually after the FREEZE.

Probably it's a setting in the BIOS, not in Windows...

You would need the PS/2 keyboard to get to the BIOS :-)

In fact, that last sentence points to a test. If you can't use the USB
keyboard's BIOS key to get to the BIOS screen, then the problem is
definitely there and not in Windows.

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com