No this time it wasn’t the 4 legged critters but the 2 button one. Suddenly it appeared my computer froze up. What actually happened is, it encountered a mouse problem. I finally got into my system restore and restored to an earlier point. It is very hard to navigate around the computer using just the keyboard if you are not used to it. That didn’t help so after a bit of fumbling around I got into my virus scanner and managed to run a full system scan. It took me nearly an hour (it takes a while to do a full system scan) to realize it was not a virus but acted like I was constantly holding down a mouse button. After the virus scan, which came up clean by the way, I shut down the computer and pried ‘er open. Everything looked OK at the moment except the dirt under the keyboard and the dirt that fell out of the keyboard when I tapped it. I brushed and vacuumed up all the dirt and took another look around. This time I noticed the keyboard connector was a bit askew in its socket. I figured I did it while handling the keyboard. After reseating it I thought I might do the same to the mouse connector. Now when I turned on the computer all was fine so back together it went. Still not sure if it was the dirt or the connectors but all seem well now.
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