FINALLY!

Recently, I have found a solution to a problem that I have had for over a year now.

Every once in a while, when I started my computer, the hard drive indicator light would turn into a solid red color even though a computer program was not using the hard drive, and while the light was constantly on, my computer would freeze completely. My mouse pointer would not move and none of the keys on my keyboard would work. This would happen every few seconds and then everything would work fine again, until the problem returned and eventually the computer would freeze and never work again until I reboot.

At first, I thought it was a software problem until I looked at the event viewer and it had this "controller error".

I then assumed that the problem was coming from the motherboard and I had plans to replace it.

A few months later at the salvation army, I saw a buckling spring keyboard I wanted to buy. I then disconnected the keyboard I had on my computer and connected this other keyboard to my computer and then, the problem disppeared.

I wanted to make sure the problem went away so I left my computer like that for a few months and finally I confirmed that the problem had finally disappeared.

So I took the keyboard that was causing the problem and hooked it up to an adapter that converts a PS/2 keyboard into a USB keyboard, and the problem has not come back since.

It's always these intermittent problems that are the hardest to fix, but I finally figured out what the cause of the problem was.

FINALLY!