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| Bobcat Senior Member  1490 Posts 2/08 |  Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 11:36AMHere's what's happening. 1. There's a beep or series of beeps from the tower. 2. The cursor starts to move about on it's own. 3. The keyboard lights flash off and on, caps lock won't go off. 4. The keys don't type what thay are supposed to. 5. Some days the above happens, others it doesn't. I've tried; 1. virus scan and nothing shows up. 2. System restore, this stops it from happening for a few hours 3. unpluging the keyboard and mouse from the tower, then plugging them back in, sometimes this works, other times it doesn't. Anyone got any ideas? I really don't want to have to reformat, it takes me days to get everything back to how it was. Edited by - bobcat on Feb 10 2009 [Link] |
| Kimi Lixx Senior Member 2012 Posts 6/01 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 12:04PM [Link] |
| Bobcat Senior Member 1490 Posts 2/08 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 12:15PM Strange thing is, today it's fine, but yesterday it was virtually unuserable. [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 12:18PM [Link] |
| Bobcat Senior Member 1490 Posts 2/08 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 12:20PM [Link] |
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| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 1:47PM Have you inspected the connector. They sometimes get loose from moving the system or cords over the years. I've screwed up a keyboard connector by dropping a keyboard and having it yank on the plug. I'd get random problems after that until I taped the keyboard cable to the case so it wouldn't wiggle in the socket. [Link] |
| Zoid Senior Member Boobies and Anal 2004 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 2:07PM [Link] |
| Bobcat Senior Member 1490 Posts 2/08 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 3:55PM The last thing I did was delete all the temporary internet files, maybe I had some sort of malware program in there? Thank you, to those who took the trouble to try and help. [Link] |
Redish  Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 9:16PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Feb 10 2009 : 10:05PM [Link] |
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| Clam Digger Deactivated User Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. 2268 Posts 1/05 | Posted - Feb 11 2009 : 3:21PM [Link] |
| oatmeal Meat Popsicle Seeking Beauty 1738 Posts 8/04 | Posted - Feb 11 2009 : 6:28PM 1) disconnect your existing keyboard and try plugging in a USB keyboard instead 2) Next time it happens you could try opening notepad to see if anything anything appears indicating a stuck key. But it sounds like it goes haywire and you may not be able to do anything. Edited by - oatmeal on 2/11/2009 6:31:02 PM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 11 2009 : 7:07PM I once had similar type symptoms, and was able to clear it up this way. When debris hangs up a key, it can cause all kind of odd behavior. [Link] |
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