Gentlemen;

I have one year old Acer Aspire notebook that's been running well but
recently it is experiencing a weird problem.

When booting the touch pad mouse seems to work fine and when the user
selection screen is displayed the mount pointer can be moved to the
desired user and the Enter key on the keyboard pressed. This brings
up the password prompt. Now, while entering the password, all of a
sudden the keyboard stops responding and so does the mouse.

The only way that I can regain control is to hold the power button
down a while until the system shuts off.

My guess is that there is a conflict of drivers somewhere in the boot
process and it occurs just about at the time I am trying to logon.

Has anyone experienced this before? Anyone have any ideas what I
might be able to do to circumvent and repair this strange situation?

Any/all recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,