My grandson has an ACER 3100 laptop with XPhome
The other day the external mouse would not work any longer, and next time he
started up, also the fixed mouse and the keyboard was dead.
As far as I know, nothing liquid has been spilled on / in it.
We runned the start up CD and it showed a lot but nothing happened with
mouse and keyboard. They are still dead.
Can anybody come up with an advise to this problem.

Ib's granddad

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Ebbe Sørensen typed on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:06:19 +0200:
> My grandson has an ACER 3100 laptop with XPhome
> The other day the external mouse would not work any longer, and next
> time he started up, also the fixed mouse and the keyboard was dead.
> As far as I know, nothing liquid has been spilled on / in it.
> We runned the start up CD and it showed a lot but nothing happened
> with mouse and keyboard. They are still dead.
> Can anybody come up with an advise to this problem.
>
> Ib's granddad

That doesn't sound good. Sounds like one of the I/O chips failed. Which
usually means the motherboard needs to be replaced.

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Bill
Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195)
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC

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BillW50 typed on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:56:33 -0500:
> In news:4a92742c$0$36571$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.d k,
> Ebbe Sørensen typed on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:06:19 +0200:
>> My grandson has an ACER 3100 laptop with XPhome
>> The other day the external mouse would not work any longer, and next
>> time he started up, also the fixed mouse and the keyboard was dead.
>> As far as I know, nothing liquid has been spilled on / in it.
>> We runned the start up CD and it showed a lot but nothing happened
>> with mouse and keyboard. They are still dead.
>> Can anybody come up with an advise to this problem.
>>
>> Ib's granddad
>
> That doesn't sound good. Sounds like one of the I/O chips failed.
> Which usually means the motherboard needs to be replaced.

I am assuming that you can't even get into the BIOS setup through the
keyboard, right? If so, that is bad. If you can, that is good! Well sort
of, as the hardware is okay, just the OS is screwed up. <grin>

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Bill
Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195)
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC

Maybe it caused by your grandson often Plug the keyboard and mouse and broken the USB port.

Just change a USB port.

Hopes that help you.

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