about 3 weeks ago my keyboard started acting up. Most of the q-p row started returning multiple letters, the shift key was apparently holding itself down, etc.

Figuring the thing was finally busted after a few years of general abuse, I simply replaced it with a cheap generic one from officemax. The new one worked fine for 3 or 4 days then starting fucking up as well. The s key returned as this character: Ç, several keys became nonresponsive, and other keys gained varied functions: among others, caps lock would shut down windows and tab would enter standby mode.

I reinstalled the windows keyboard drivers, and did several full sav/spybot scans that came back clean.

The keyboard kept this behavior when used on other computers as well. I exchanged it for another of the same model. This current one has worked fine for almost 2 weeks now, but is now suffering the same effect, albeit with different keys.

Does anyone have any idea about what might be causing this? a virus maybe? or perhaps my mobo's usb ports are doing it?
standard ps2 keyboards are working fine, it's only usb ones that are being affected. however, my usb mouse/thumbdrives/etc have been working fine. I have a hijackthis logfile I could post if it would help.

7/30/2007 9:24:11 PM

Do you have a Dell?

It's unlikely a SW problem will cause a HW problem, and if the keyboards are all borked on other computers, then it's either bad luck with keyboards, or your computer has a HW problem.

7/30/2007 9:29:26 PM

go into bios on boot, if you have a pc health status tab, select it, and see what your 5 volt powersupply rail looks like.

7/31/2007 5:28:31 AM

I'm assuming you've ran a virus scan?

7/31/2007 8:39:28 AM

just use a cheap ps/2 for now

7/31/2007 9:13:07 AM

virus scan is bs, this is a bad mobo or bad powersupply issue.

7/31/2007 11:10:42 PM

my old computer hates ps/2 keyboards /mice and i don't know what to do cause my blue tooth shit is friends with my lappy now

9/16/2007 8:54:46 PM