Keyboard Boot Virus?

Mike Monett · 2022-04-18T00:55:58+00:00

I recently ran into a major problem. I have been having problems with 100% cpu overload on Youtube. This cripples the video playback. I tried numerous methods to try to solve the problem. None of them worked. I then looked at the Window firewall. Since I have numerous NAT firewalls between my computer and the internet, I felt this was not necessary and I disabled it.A short while later, I ran into very serious problems. When I tried to reboot, the screen would go absolutely crazy, and continually reboot itself.I tried to diagnose the problem. I switched motherboards. This did not help. I next examined the power supply to see if faulty voltages could cause the problem.But after 3 decades and trillions of power supplied delivered, you would conclude if there was a problem with the power on signal, someone would have found it by now.I examined the onboard memory. You can't do much with this since any information disappears when power is turned off.I examined the cmos ram. This is not much help, since it only contains 64 bytes of memory. Even so, I removed the battery. This did not help.The only thing left after all this was the keyboard. I replaced it, and lo and behold, the problem disappeard.1. Is it possible that some kind of virus could be written to the keyboard ROM? There is plenty of memory available since it has to map all the keypresses to USB. And it does have some sort of writeable memory since you can turn off NumLock during boot.2. If there is some kind of new virus coming around, it could be deadly. It completly disables any computer, since it attacks the most elementary component. Remember the "Press F2 to continue" of the DOS days? It showed up when there was no keyboard connected!Whatever the source, the problem completely obliterated the ssd drive I was using at the time. ChkDsk found numerous errors on the drive and it would not boot. I replaced it with a backup and this enabled me to get back on line.Recommendations:1. Keep a spare keyboard...