Is it just f42 or any OS? I’ve had issues in the past with some mice being treated as a keyboard and it would do exactly this.

Your ‘ingram’ personality will forever live online, like a ghost…in machine…to forever be recommended to new users and great great grandkids.

Idk. Maybe a bit more detail about the process? Try redownloading the iso’s? What software are you using to burn? Tried any bios changes, like with UEFI, secure boot or csm legacy stuff?

Ya sure the optical drive is still good?