On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:32 AM, David Both <dboth at millennium-technology.com > wrote: > This has happened to me in the past. It is not an OS problem, it was for > me a > hardware issue. One or both of two things may be causing this problem. > > Some USB keyboards require more power than others. My USB keyboard would > exhibit > these same symptoms when plugged into a hub that was powered only by the > computer itself or another hub. So my particular USB keyboard must be > plugged > into a hub that has its own power supply. > Definitely try another keyboard as others have suggested. And another USB port ... maybe even try a PS2 keyboard if the mobo has one and you have one of those keyboards handy. On the topic of power... It's possible that your power supply is failing. You'll experience sluggishness ... it might take a few minutes to shutdown or reboot where it should only take a few seconds. Or when it gets worse, the machine refuses to turn on. If you can run a rescue OS on the system and it still acts up, then its most likely a hardware problem. >From there you get to swap "known good" components to track down the problem. ;-) -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //