Howdy all...I came home yesterday only to find my wife telling me xsomething is wrong with the pc. The keyboard doesnt work. I have a logitech wrirelss keyboard and mouse so i figured maybe the battery died on it, so i changed batteries and nothing....so i took out the old wired one and connected it. it worked ok but then the mouse froze up, so to make a long story short if i use the mouse I can only use the mouse, if i use thejkeyboard i can only use the keyboard or one or the other freeze up. I checked devidce manager and they both are in working order....any ideas whats going on>? I thought a virus but ran my vuirus software nothing other than a infected cookie, but that didnt solve the problem.

Thanks!!

It does sounds like an IRQ conflict but it is rare to see that these days. Go into the device manager, double click on the mouse and KB, click on the resource tab and make sure they are assigned a different IRQ.

You can try uninstalling them both in DM, reboot and let windows find and install them again.

I figured maybe there's just a virus or something that screwed up my system because I've never had a problem like that....so I backed everything up just using the mouse of course, and then I set my bios to boot up from the cd rom so i could wipe out the HD and just start over.....It won't let me do that!!! It goes directly to windows as a priority boot even though when i checked my bios it says that the cdrom is 1st priority to boot....Does it sound like the HD is screwed?

Hi.
What CD did you inserted in the CDROM?

The windows XP professional so i could delete the partition and reinstall windows

If you have a FDD, make a FREE bootable Smart Boot Manager Floppy Disk (http://www.iol.ie/~krakowangus/sbm/sbm.htm) and use that to specify/choose which of the detected drives to boot [the optical drive in this case].