Monitor mouse and keyboard go unresponsive

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MikeyMuchos

I have a small home network. I usually turn it all on at 7am and off at
12pm.
On one workstation, I can visit it several times throughout the day and
everything is OK for most of the morning and afternoon, then at one
point in the evening I'll go to use it and the monitor, mouse and
keyboard are totally unresponsive. The machine hasn't crashed because
I can still access the files on it from the other computers. The
windows power saving features are set to "always on" and the BIOS
settings have not been changed. It was fine until about a week ago,
then this condition developed. I do turn the monitor off and on as
needed but there was no problem until recently. Can anyone offer some
advice please.
TIA
Mikey
 
MikeyMuchos said:
I have a small home network. I usually turn it all on at 7am and off
at 12pm.
On one workstation, I can visit it several times throughout the day
and everything is OK for most of the morning and afternoon, then at
one point in the evening I'll go to use it and the monitor, mouse and
keyboard are totally unresponsive. The machine hasn't crashed because
I can still access the files on it from the other computers. The
windows power saving features are set to "always on" and the BIOS
settings have not been changed. It was fine until about a week ago,
then this condition developed. I do turn the monitor off and on as
needed but there was no problem until recently. Can anyone offer some
advice please.
TIA
Mikey
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It sounds like your machine is overheating. Possibly the video card's
fan has stopped (if it has one).

If there are no clues in Event Viewer, do hardware troubleshooting.

Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter]

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

Malke
 
Malke said:
It sounds like your machine is overheating. Possibly the video card's
fan has stopped (if it has one).

If there are no clues in Event Viewer, do hardware troubleshooting.

Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter]

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
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Thanks for that Event Viewer showed several errors leading to a
suggestion of a BIOS upgrade.
Mikey
 
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