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,

"bobmct" <r.mariotti@fdcx.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
Hmm. Interesting problem. I've experienced something like this, but nowhere
near as bad, on my Acer Aspire 5100. The laptop keyboard frequently "locks
up" for a second or two when entering passwords on web sites and once or
twice I've seen it do this while in Word or writing an email. Like you, I'm
not sure why this occurs either. Now when entering passwords I have to wait
between letters and watch to make sure I have a cursor icon on the screen
before pressing the next key. I have had tons of problems with this laptop
and it back to the Acer shop twice. I've just chalked it up to possibly a
driver issue and Acer's poor quality in general.

bobmct <r.mariotti@fdcx.net> wrote in
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> Gentlemen;
>
> I have one year old Acer Aspire notebook that's been running well but
> recently it is experiencing a weird problem.
> Any/all recommendations appreciated.

any luck with an external usb keyboard and mouse?

and, does Acer have notebook software for 'hot keys' that control things
like wireless and touchpad enable/disable? if so, it could be set to
disable for some reason. makes sense, cuz it works while you boot up, but
when the software loads, it disables.