Macbook Air Mid 13 TrackPad and Keyboard Stopped working.

Both trackpad and mouse work when I have to sign into my account; however, once I'm on my windows screen both stop working. It tries and searches for bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I don't know how else to fix this issue. Please help I have tried all recovery options and erased everything on disk utility ( i saved my files first ) . for now i have been using an external mouse and keyboard. I also had the newest software update os x yosemite but when i re installed os x it installed lion but still the same problem.

finally its fixed!! ...i went on the mac osx hints site...someone suggested resetting the pram and pmu...i was worried i wouldn't be able to hit the key combinations because of the whole keyboard thing...but apparently, my keyboard still worked until it got into os x...so i reset the pmu with shift-option-control-power while the computer was off...and voila...problem solved!!
thanks for all your help....you *******!! lol jk
peas

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