My laptop started to do something very strange last night. In the middle of watching a youtube video I went to move my cursor with the trackpad and nothing happened. I hit the trackpad on/off button a few time and the color of the indicator light didn't even change. I then tried ctrl/alt/del and nothing still. After hitting a few more buttons nothing at all was working, not even the power button when I went to turn it off. The strange part is the video continued playing without a problem. The sound was fine, the video was fine, but I couldn't do anything. I ended up turning it off by pulling out the charger cord.
After giving it a few minutes I tried to turn it on but all I got was a black screen with the little underscore looking cursor in the corner that wasn't blinking. Unplugged and tried again and it worked. After a little while the same lockup problem happened. I was on Facebook this time and I could see the status updates and whatnot still popping up, but again I had no control.
I plugged in my USB keyboard and mouse and they work just fine when the actually laptop keyboard and trackpad stop working.
I have had a bad battery for a while and I really can't unplug my charger without it dying shortly after. It does also get pretty warm at times, but I have never had any overheating warnings happen.
Specs
Compaq Persario CQ60
2.2 GHz Intel Processor
2 GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium OS