Here is what i discovered further



Cold starting (booting) the laptop with battery power or after disconnecting and reconnecting AC power - KB and mouse available

Warm restarting (booting) the laptop - no KB nor mouse available



Its something in the continuous power supply that is preventing the KB and mouse from functioning and when the supply is shut off and restarted there is no problem
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I have this inexplicable problem from yesterday

Each time i start my laptop by pushing the physical power button in, the laptop keyboard and touchpad are available to me for use when the system has booted to the desktop (I can enter the bios by pressing on F10 too) irrespective of whether the laptop is powered by the AC adapter or the battery. This is normal behaviour

BUT NOW FOR THE ABNORMAL PART

However, when using the laptop normally, if i choose restart from the power options, the touchpad and mouse are non-functional when the system has booted to the...