Very Odd Error ? HELP

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SuspectZero

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I have an error that i have been unable to diagnose myself.
ill refer to it as the 50/50 error

50 % of the time my pc boots no problem everything is great . and with no changes to system setting or any other aspect of the computer....

the other 50% of the time my pc just hangs in 1 of 3 places

1. my pc doesnt post and says on the screening searching for usb devices ( i have an external hard drive plugged in and an external dvd burner plugged in ) with them unplugged it never has that error.

2. My pc boots to the windows screen with the blue scrolling bar and sits there ive counted how many times tha bar goes by as if it matters and lose count after 100 times ( usually boots after 5 )

3. or i get a 2 beep code (parity circuit failure) and pc will boot fine but mouse and keyboard dont work (logitech wireless combo).

My thought is its the mother board any ideas ?
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you know I have experienced this a lot, when moving files to friends family and stuff. When ever I restart the PC and forget to take the USB drive out, or disconnect the external HDD or even forget to unplug the HDD enclosure, there often is a failure somewhere. I've seen anything from no POST beeping to the PC just hanging forever. I don't think it is your mobo at all. I have experienced this with old as well as brand new dells with SP2 and all patches. So I ca't suggest anything but not to have it plugged in upon reboot. Or see if there is some updates for your USB devices, or even your mobo BIOS. There might be a setting in the BIOS where you can setup USB to be recognized or something like that.
 
Thanks for th suggestion ill try that hopefully thats the issue maybe just drivers of updated bios. just very weird ive never espienced three different seemingly unrelated problems that at the same time seem very related
 
I was having boot problems with my computer, someone suggested the mobo, so I called Asus first. They warrant their motherboards for 3 years, and they gave me free tech support (minus the long distance charges). Here's the number I called, 502-995-0883, after waiting for about 7 min, I talked to the guy for 2 min and he told me what to try before replacing the board. In my case one of the memory modules was bad. Now my computer boots up no problem, albeit I only have 512 MB of ram for now... Good luck
 
My next assumption would be the memory as well, but why would it work 50% of the Time and the other 50 % it hangs really bad, or just doent boot , i dont get it .
 
Ok. Now i have another problem , when i come out of hibranate mode in windows my mouse and key board do not work , and now im just very irate at this computer.........
 
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