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Mouse and Keyboard Failure after Power Outage
I was playing a game on my PC several days ago during a thunderstorm, and unfortunately the power went out briefly. My computer is plugged in to a surge protector. When I restarted my computer, immediately I noticed that my USB wired mouse and keyboard were both not operating. The lights on both were on, but when I pressed the start menu key or tried to wiggle my mouse, nothing happened. I tried another mouse to no avail. All my other USB devices seemed to be working fine. I researched the problem and didn't find many answers, only a suggestion to do a system restore. I should note that both the mouse and keyboard work perfectly fine in BIOS, but fail to work once Windows is actually started. I used my Windows 7 OEM disk and did a system restore to a point a few days earlier that apparently was saved before a critical update (my mouse worked in that too). After finishing and restarting, the mouse and keyboard both worked fine. All was well until I shut down my computer for the night and came back on the next day to find, once again, my mouse and keyboard didn't work. I simply continued to restore to that same update for a couple of days until today when I realized that that specific point was no longer on the list, even when I clicked show more restore points. Now I don't know what to do because I can not make any input to my computer after windows has started. If anyone has any idea on how I can fix this, please let me know.
Note: I have tried booting into safe mode, deleting then re-plugging in the devices, and using a different USB port for the devices all to no avail.