I've been having an issue over the past couple days which occurs at random, in which my keyboard and mouse connect and disconnect randomly. They're both plugged into the USB's on the back of the motherboard firmly and have a good connect, but they will lose power and come back on within a second. I can tell because of the DPI setting light on my mouse, and my keyboard is backlit. A couple hours ago, it started doing it to both, at the same time, rapidly- just lights blinking on and off at an inconsistent rate, with Windows blooping occasionally saying a device is connected or disconnected. I restarted it and it hasn't done that since...
Shut it down earlier, turned off the PSU and discharged the system by holding the power button, then swapped ports. Just did it again to the mouse. Makes absolutely no sense to me for this to be so random. I'd figure it would be an either works or it doesn't situation, not intermittent.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3... I had power outages a couple days ago that came on and off (as it does any friggin' time it rains in my neighborhood), so is it likely that my board is screwed?
I'm going to check later today to see if some of the caps on the board are puffed or blown as I read that can sometimes cause issues...
Another, possibly unrelated problem I had about a week ago: my computer completely locked up except for the mouse. I could move it around, but nothing would respond, then the screen went black, and the mouse pointer became a huge white square. I could still move it around, etc... I restarted and haven't had that problem since, knock on wood.
Shut it down earlier, turned off the PSU and discharged the system by holding the power button, then swapped ports. Just did it again to the mouse. Makes absolutely no sense to me for this to be so random. I'd figure it would be an either works or it doesn't situation, not intermittent.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3... I had power outages a couple days ago that came on and off (as it does any friggin' time it rains in my neighborhood), so is it likely that my board is screwed?
I'm going to check later today to see if some of the caps on the board are puffed or blown as I read that can sometimes cause issues...
Another, possibly unrelated problem I had about a week ago: my computer completely locked up except for the mouse. I could move it around, but nothing would respond, then the screen went black, and the mouse pointer became a huge white square. I could still move it around, etc... I restarted and haven't had that problem since, knock on wood.