Keys not working

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Ken Harris

I'm having trouble with a group of keys going out at the
same time. They include the G, H, 'delete', 'escape',
and 'apostrophe' keys. These keys always go out as a
group and come back as a group. I've never noticed any of
them going out individually. They seem to do this without
rhyme or reason.

I have an HP Pavilion N5470 laptop, and am running Windows
2000. These keys were going on and off all the time in
February, then stopped causing problems for a few months,
before just starting to act up again today.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ken Harris
 
Ken Harris said:
I'm having trouble with a group of keys going out at the
same time. They include the G, H, 'delete', 'escape',
and 'apostrophe' keys. These keys always go out as a
group and come back as a group. I've never noticed any of
them going out individually. They seem to do this without
rhyme or reason.

I have an HP Pavilion N5470 laptop, and am running Windows
2000. These keys were going on and off all the time in
February, then stopped causing problems for a few months,
before just starting to act up again today.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ken Harris
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Try another keyboard.
 
I've used an external keyboard when those keys go out, and
have never had a problem with that external keyboard.

I just can't figure out what the one variable is that
causes the group of keys to go out at the same time on the
laptop keyboard.

BTW... I mistyped in the original message. The 'delete'
key works when the problem is occurring. I meant to
type 'backspace'.
 
Ken Harris said:
I've used an external keyboard when those keys go out, and
have never had a problem with that external keyboard.

I just can't figure out what the one variable is that
causes the group of keys to go out at the same time on the
laptop keyboard.

BTW... I mistyped in the original message. The 'delete'
key works when the problem is occurring. I meant to
type 'backspace'.
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Your internal keyboard scanning circuit has probably developed
a fault. This is unlikely to be a Win2000 issue, and you can
easily prove it. Next time you have the problem, reboot the
laptop with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. If the
keyboard still fails then you know for sure that your hardware
is flawed.
 
-----Original Message-----
I've used an external keyboard when those keys go out, and
have never had a problem with that external keyboard.

I just can't figure out what the one variable is that
causes the group of keys to go out at the same time on the
laptop keyboard.

BTW... I mistyped in the original message. The 'delete'
key works when the problem is occurring. I meant to
type 'backspace'.


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Thanks for the bootdisk suggestion. I'm going to give
that a shot to try to narrow the problem down.
 
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