[djmcmath]

This problem is starting to get to me. I'm trying to install Windows XP x64 on an otherwise perfectly operational Linux machine. When I start the Windows install, the keyboard begins acting strangely: it's like the keyboard is unresponsive, then once it finally "catches," it sticks. For example: I go to type in the registration key, for example, and I hit "Q." Nothing happens. So I hit "Q" again, and again, and again. Finally, I get a whole row of "QQQQQQQQQQQ." It stops on it's own after 6-20 times.

At first I thought this was a keyboard problem. Except that the same keyboard works fine on my other computer. It's also not isolated to the keyboard -- the mouse responds similarly, as if sometimes it's listening, and sometimes it's not. I have both of my computers on a KVM, and it works fine for the "slow" machine, and fine for Linux on the "fast" machine, but for some reason Windows isn't working right on the "fast" machine.

So after a long fight, I get Windows installed. I'd hoped that maybe the USB drivers in the installer were somehow incorrect, and that the full-fledged Windows drivers would be better -- no such luck. Fortunately, I have another symptom: if I click on something, say, a close box, it changes shading, then closes. The interesting thing is that there's an unusually long delay between the computer's acknowledgment that I've clicked (the change in shading) and the response -- like the whole machine is hung up, waiting for something. The "hang" lasts for anywhere from about 1-3 seconds.

I tried booting into Safe Mode, in hopes that perhaps there's something special here ... no such luck. If it helps any, the motherboard is an Asus A8NE, with an AMD 3200 processor and 1GB of generic memory. The keyboard and mouse are both Logitech.

I'm open to anything -- any random ideas, and off-the-wall concepts or stories that you picked up somewhere are good. I'm desperate.

Thanks in advance,

Dan