Z68A-GD65 (G3) issues: monitor stays on, mouse problems

Hi,
First I need to mention that I already updated BIOS to latest version (23.1).
The BIOS once froze when I tried to exit without saving changes, but that was before I updated it.
The issues are following:
1. Randomly (about 50%-50%), upon shutdown the monitor will not turn off. I am running the integrated graphics of the i5-2500K CPU, DVI output. The system is shut down and not in some sleep mode, also I tried to flip the PSU switch and the effect persists (the monitor does not turn off even then). It keeps displaying a perfectly black image, and the OSD menu does not respond (cannot be brought up). The monitor is connected to an Aten DVI KVM switch, which I also reset to eliminate it as the sole issue. I've had many machines and different OSes (Windows, Linux), but never have I seen this before. It seems the system somehow does not shutdown the monitor properly.
2. Upon shutdown, the mouse LED stays on. I'm using the same OS (Windows XP Pro 32-bit) as with the previous motherboard (Asus), and always the mouse properly turned off, so it doesn't seem to be an OS issue. Funny thing is, I also have one USB cable with a LED. This cable never turned its LED off on the Asus board, while it does turn it off on the MSI. This is another indication of weird shutdown, as mouse does not receive the shutdown signal. Even if power is cut, the KVM will keep powering it. This just happens to be the first motherboard, on which my Windows XP fails to turn it off upon shutdown.
3. After the BIOS upgrade, the mouse does not work anymore within BIOS. The cursor is confined to one vertical line on the left side, and the motion is reversed (I move the mouse down and the cursor moves up). The mouse is Cooler Master Spawn. The funny thing is, that the BIOS update mentions improving compatibility with gaming mice, and the mouse was working perfectly before this update.
Note that this mouse-in-BIOS issue is minor, I mostly care about the first two.
To resolve the issues, I've tried toggling various BIOS settings like EuP 2013, spread spectrum, legacy USB support, etc. All to no avail.
Please help?

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Have you connected the mouse directly to the USB ports of the board itself?
We need to get the KVM thing out of the equation completely.
Not yet. If the issue won't return with the other port, KVM will obviously be at fault. Not using the KVM is not an option to begin with, that's why I'm still testing through normal usage with the KVM. Either way, it's impossible to forcibly prove that something works since the issue not reappearing may only be a coincidence, no matter how many times you try. You can only prove it doesn't work when the issue appears, hence this approach. That is, I'm tracking down the issue from the nonworking side. Don't worry, if it reappears I will try direct connection. If it doesn't reappear on another port, I'd only be destroying my hardware with needless restarts since the issue could not reappear anyway.
Please allow me a week (max) for this, I'll report back. If it doesn't reappear in a week, it had to be KVM port/cable.
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That is a different concept. A "safe disconnect" will basically log-out the respective drive (unmount it) and force all pending read/write/caching tasks to be completed.  However, this does not concern the functionality of the USB Ports.  They will still supply power, which means the connected device as such will remain powered.  It is just "logged out" of the operating system.
I was actually talking about what happens after unmounting. The HDD itself will stop spinning. This has nothing to do with flushing cache and unmounting. The system sends some kind of shutdown signal to the device. This was also identified as an issue on Windows 7, where by default windows did not shutdown external devices by default, when you "safely disconnect" them. Supposedly it was because of phones, which needed to keep charging and not shutdown even when you "safely disconnect" them. But people now complained they are afraid to pull the cable on the still-spinning harddrives. Windows XP does stop them by default, and on Windows 7 they offered a solution through a registry tweak that returns the XP behaviour.
So, this seems to be a special command. I'm guessing this is sent to all USB devices upon system shutdown, that this command is universal. At least, it was sent with the Asus board and now it isn't anymore.
If I connect the mouse directly it will most likely turn off upon shutdown. The cable LED already indicated that the board cuts power. That doesn't mean that it works correctly, since the USB device shutdown command, which is obviously needed with KVM switches, is still not sent for some reason. I hope nobody comes forward and presents this as a "feature"
I'll try to search in this direction, but I don't know that much about hardware/driver/OS chain, where the problem seems to originate from.
Cheers! 

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    EDIT2: BSOD after 50mins OCCT at 4.5ghz 1.325v, backed off the BCLK increase from 100.2 to default 99.8, and upped volts to 1.330v, if its stable, im backing off volts to 1.325 again and running again.
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