Keyboard woes - help!

[gtd2000]

I am using a Logitech USB keyboard which works perfectly - HOWEVER - when it comes to setting up the movement keys in many games the cursor keys are not recognised for some reason for example:-

In HalfLife for movement I normally have the following setup:

Forwards = Up Key
Backwards = Down key
Strafe left = Left Key
Strafe right = Right key
Jump = right shift
Crouch - Right Ctrl

Now the cursor keys do work properly in other applications but for some reason not while in games? If I select any of the cursor keys in Half Life is detects the "shift" key - for all four directions???

I never had this problem before and have no idea why this is occuring now - is this a USB problem?

I am using a USB keyboard due to my PS/2 port being burned out due to hot-swapping the keyboard

 

[DaiShan]

I think it is a software issue, for instance on my intellimouse optical, HL only recognizes 3 of the buttons, the fourth it thinks is something different, and BTW you are lucky you didn't take out the whole mobo with your hot swapping abilities lol (lost 2 mobos before someone told me ps2 always has power running through it)

 

[gtd2000]

Yeah I'm suspecting that I messed the whole board up actually - can't get my system to boot without major errors if I have more than one stick of RAM in place either now - just leave one in place and it is perfect though

I never used to hot swap keyboards in the past - it was just that I had two systems and only one keyboard and thought - "what the hell"

I didn't think it would actually fry the port

What confuses me though is that the cursor keys DO work in other applications - it's only when I try to set 'em in 3D games that they are not recognised for some strange reason.....well they are recognised as shift keys anyway

When I set the cursor keys they are all individually detected as the "SHIFT" key for reasons beyond me

The thing is though that it is a USB keyboard and in theory should not be affected by the PS/2 slot problem surely?