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Franco

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Weird keyboard??
« on: April 03, 2005, 05:05:44 pm »
Ive had my cab up and running for a couple of weeks now and everything was fine before my keyboard started playing up.

I was using it one day and all of a sudden the letter h kept repeating in a text editor, kinda like hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (you get the drift). It keeps doing this everynow and again until I press [Esc] and then it stops. However then I cannot input h. I thought it may just be my USB keyboard playing up so i plugged my old PS2 keyboard in.It seemed fine for a while and then all of a sudden its started doing the same thing but with the number 8.

I have tried the keyboards on another computer and they seem fine. Any ideas what the problem could be or what I may do to fix it?

Thanks.

Btw its on a new comp ive only had for a month or so.

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Re: Weird keyboard??
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2005, 05:21:03 pm »
hmm, are you running though an IPAC? if so do you have a button mapped to h? If so sounds like a loose connection on that button

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Re: Weird keyboard??
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2005, 05:34:20 pm »
Thanks but no that not causing it. Neither keyboard was plugged into my I-Pac. Ive tried it with my I-Pac unplugged just to make sure but im still getting the same problem  :'(

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Re: Weird keyboard??
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2005, 07:56:09 am »
What exact setup do you have?  Is the I-PAC connected and the computer on when you are trying this?  Where are you plugging the keyboard into?

(I have a similar problem with a KeyWiz that I hot-swap into the PS/2 port.  About 1/3 of the time, it will have an apparent stuck key when first plugged in.  Pressing any other key or the same key once clears it, and I've never seen it re-occur until I unplugged it again, but it sounds like it might be similar).
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Re: Weird keyboard??
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2005, 05:38:14 pm »
I have the I-Pac plugged in via USB. I have tried it with the I-Pac plugged in and without it, both gives me problems.

I have tried two keyboards, one USB (gives me the hhhhhhh problem) and a PS2 keyboard (gives me 8888888)

Im thinking it could me something to do with the computer itself?