Lag/not registering keystrokes between keyboard and computer?

[Jeeebus]

Having a weird issue that I've not experienced before. As I type on this keyboard it will frequently miss a key - not the same key, but all over the place. It's happened already twice in just typing out this thread. This is the second keyboard that is exhibiting the same problem, so that leads me to believe it's not the keyboard itself that is the issue.

Any ideas? Windows 7x64 and this just started a couple weeks ago.

 

[Ken g6]

You mean it free.....zes while you're ty.....ping?

Oddly, the first thing I'd check is the hard drive, with Smartmon Tools or something. If swapping gets stuck, everything can freeze until it completes. If your hard drive is dying this can happen more often.

Not sure what the behavior would be if you have an SSD, though.

Edit: Second thing I'd check is the video card drivers.

 

[ArisVer]

Wireless?

 

[K7SN]

Third think I check is task manager and make sure some process isn't hitting the computer hard. I get those fre...zes when I'm processing huge amounts of data, where the task process is or should be taking 99% of my CPU's time.

If that is the case, Fire up task manager and look for other culprits; you should be able to do all other things from playing solitaire to checking a POP server with less than 1% CPU load while it to handles all the basic operating system like monitoring keyboard and mouse, being probed by Windows Exploder running on another machine, running task manager etc.. If something is taking a couple percent of your CPU time; verify it is a process you need.

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Refreshing Anandtech is getting that way with some of these slow loading Google inspired messages that target me for buying V-8 juice or whatever I've left in a Walmart shopping cart, dared to looked at Amazon, etc..
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[Jeeebus]

Wireless?

wired

 

[sm625]

There has to be a process that is pegging your cpu. Run malwarebytes.

 

[Jeeebus]

Third think I check is task manager and make sure some process isn't hitting the computer hard. I get those fre...zes when I'm processing huge amounts of data, where the task process is or should be taking 99% of my CPU's time.

That seems to be the problem. Lorex house surveillance camera program was running in the background though only taking 20% of cpu power. When I close that program I don't notice any skipped keys (for the past few hours anyway).