certian keyboard keys stopped working (be glad it isn't yours)

me_mantis · Aug 23, 2005, 07:35 PM

once upon a time, there were 102 happy little keys that all worked on my creative prodikeys keyboard. the all of a sudden, bammy, the r, y, h, 7, i, and the k keys died. this happened when i was using my computer. a while later, the keys worked again. i said to myself that ''this must be a driver malfunction.'' i did a bunch of driver tests, and there were no(ok very unlikely cuz i reinstalled them a bunch of times.) problems. now i changed keyboards, and i didn't have the problem for a while, but Bazzow! the problem came back now on a different keyboard. i adeptly restarted my computer (whatever i just hit the button), and i went into the bois. i tried to reset my password the r, y, h, 7, i, and the k didn't work. now i was very mad, so i uninstalled photoshop 5.0 le. (take that adobe! jasc owns you) this didn't do anything. i almost uninstalled aim (yim ownz aol btw). then i restarted my computer, and i plugged in a very old dell quietkey keyboard (that i painted blue =) into my ps2 to usb converter, and then i plugged that into a usb port. this worked fine in my bois, and in windows except that its broken shift keys stopped me from using capitol keys, and i am using the on screen keyboard to do that. i also have it configured as a djvorak layout. so now ill restart and try my other keyboards. they won't work. i'd add explitive style characters, but my shift keys are shot.

no there is not dust, hair or water in my keyboards.

all my computer cables are secure.

i know a ton about computers
i made this one and it was fine for 2 years.

os = xp home
cpu amd sempron 2400
160 gig westerdigital hd
512 mn pc 2100 ram

nvidia quaddro 700xgl gfx card

other stuff that don't matter

thxz for the comments you post, even if its jist making fun of this stupid bug.

do i have a virus/ i have clamwin searching now. so ill see that soon.

edit!!
soo anyways I plugged my iconcepts keyboard into my ps2 to usb converters extra port (its got 2) and it works !! But this problem is not constant. it stops and starts with no logical warning. maybe somone is recording my keystrokes.

me_mantis · Sep 11, 2005, 02:34 PM

Well Maybe its fixed maybe its not. For a few moments, the keys stopped working, and the a bit later after hitting the a ton, they started working again.

What could be remaping my keyboard like this?

My usb device was NOT in my comp when this happened.

me_mantis · Sep 14, 2005, 11:30 AM

I tried both my prodikeys keyboard www.prodikeys.com and my iconceps keyboard http://www.officemax.com/max/solutio...2CV2V2&afsrc=1

on a different computer, and they both had the same error.

Is it possible for a computers mainboard to reprogram 2 different keyboards with the exact same error?
Should I try to replace my keyboards with the risk of the same error, or should i replace my mainboard?



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