I have an issue with my laptop that I have not experienced before.
I have a Dell Latitude D620.
Two days ago the keyboard stopped functioning properly as did the mouse. In a text editor the keys I typed did not correspond to the correct letters...they were some greek variants or something like that. Some keys would not work at all. This made logging in difficult. The mouse would highlight an icon but not open the program or folder. Some of the time if I held the control key and clicked the folder would open and at other times this did no good at all.
I managed to copy my Home directory to an external drive. I also managed to re-intall Hardy (though not formatting my Home folder). I gave up troubleshooting last night.
This morning the laptop is working fine.
Is the laptop overheating? Is there some strange motherboard issue?
I have no explanation for this and my concern is that as quickly as it righted itself it may falter again.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks so much.

Ian.