Screen Freezes when holding down a key

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I just made a new PC with a buddy of mine, obviously with Vista Home Edition
on it. The problem is that when I hold any key down the screen freezes,
sometimes after 2 seconds and sometimes after 10 seconds and anywhere in
between, but only for as long as I hold the key down.

If I move the mouse during this it will reappear where it should, so its
like only the screen stops. Also, if I hold the key long enough the PC will
make that monotonous beep noise (not from the speakers, the box itself), and
my mouses buttons get reassigned to weird things. For example, the scroll
wheel always gets reassigned to changing text size.

I first noticed it when I played Unreal Tournament for the first time. I was
just holding the 'w' key to move forward and the screen froze. Then I exited
the game and reproduced the problem at the desktop.

The keyboard I have is some generic old gateway keyboard, its ps/2. As far
as I know the drivers on it are up to date and everything.

I've updated drivers on everything. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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jsph27 said:
I just made a new PC with a buddy of mine, obviously with Vista Home
Edition on it. The problem is that when I hold any key down the screen
freezes, sometimes after 2 seconds and sometimes after 10 seconds and
anywhere in between, but only for as long as I hold the key down.

If I move the mouse during this it will reappear where it should, so its
like only the screen stops. Also, if I hold the key long enough the PC
will make that monotonous beep noise (not from the speakers, the box
itself), and my mouses buttons get reassigned to weird things. For
example, the scroll wheel always gets reassigned to changing text size.

I first noticed it when I played Unreal Tournament for the first time. I
was just holding the 'w' key to move forward and the screen froze. Then I
exited the game and reproduced the problem at the desktop.

The keyboard I have is some generic old gateway keyboard, its ps/2. As far
as I know the drivers on it are up to date and everything.

I've updated drivers on everything. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Try a different keyboard.

Malke
 
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