Weird Keyboard Problem

dkline · 25th February 2002

I've got a weird problem and actually I DON't think it's the keyboard.

I keep getting dropped letters -- i.e., letters that don't type even though I have hit the appropriate key on the keyboard.

At first I thought my keyboard was just "wearing out", because I really bang down hard on the keys when I type.

So I chaned to another keyboard I had lying around. Same roblem. So I bought a new keyboard, and again -- same problem.

(Do you see the problem in the paragraph above? "Chaned" should be "changed;" and "roblem" should be "problem.")

I checked the BIOS -- I don't even have a setting for keyboard. I have a Del XR 400 (make that a "Dell XPR 400" -- there's the problem again!) and I'm using Win98 SE.

This problem appears in all software, and online as well as offline. It's as if I'm suddenly typing way too fast and missing keys. Excet that I'm not, I don't think. I'm typing the same way on ths PC that I have been typing for 3 years (and there it is again -- "excet" should be "except" and "ths" should be "this").

I cannot for the life of me even guess at what the problem might be. Does anyone have any suggestions?

By the ay, since it's obviously NOT the keyboard, should I post this question in another topic -- say, Windows?

lhomg · 25th February 2002

Try looking through the discussion under hardware, thread starter-danzante--keyboard problems. It sounds like the same problem, maybe something in there can help.

dkline · 26th February 2002

Thanks for the tip.

I tried <danzante>'s suggestion -- removing the keyboard from device manager while in Safe mode and then letting Windows re-install it -- and it did seem to work, believe it or not. Or at least this text here seems not to have any dropped letters, right?

So I'll keep typing away and using my programs and see if there's really a permanent improvement, but at least so far it looks good.

Do you know why removing the keyboard from device manager would work? I mean, what is it in a "device installation" for a measley little keyboard that could become corrupted? Any ideas?

Anyway, thanks again, Lhomg.

lhomg · 26th February 2002

Not sure why this would happen, supoz it could be a number of stupid little things, main thing is that it seems to be working now!!