OK, first let me roll out my cred. I'm a Software Engineer/applications programmer/Sr. Statistical Programmer with more than 40 years of programming and pc building experience. I have specialized in software quality control and software validation, so I know how to debug and be methodical.
I wish it was just a hardware issue, but the problem only occurs after I've booted into Windows and not when I boot into Linux. I always boot into the bios first to see how it's doing, and the issue affects both the mouse and the keyboard in that I can't access the section of the bios options