I'm running WinXP (home)..never had problems with it or the rest of the machine, except for a memory stick than went south a couple of months ago.
Did you mean reboot without the mouse and keyboard connected?
----- Instead of waiting for a reply, I just did disconnected both. I got two beeps this time and now it appears to be booting - the file system checking is going on now....
ok... everything booted nicely
Now.... dare I reconnect the keyboard and the mouse....?