Weird Keyboard Problem

[figgypowerstwin]

For some reason I've lost all use of the following keys on my keyboard: 6,7,y,u,h,j,n,m. If you look at it, you'll see it's a neat diagonal column on a QWERTY keyboard. I'm reluctant to say it's just hardware. I've looked this up on Google and apparently the keyboard drivers can become corrupted. I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Windows XP Pro, so there is no specific driver for it besides the generic 101/102 keys. I've tried uninstalling the keyboard driver and letting Windows redetect it, in normal and safe mode, to no avail. I've checked for dust/debris underneath the keys and no liquid was spilt. It just stopped working after being restarted ("reawakaned") from "Sleep" mode. The only reason I could log on was thanks to my admin account; then charmap. I wold appreciate any help, as I'm completely puzzled...

 

[Trizik]

sounds like you have a faulty keyboard to me

either that or a virus... test with another keyboard to be sure

i'd bet on the faulty keyboard though

 

[bazcor]

Have you tried a different keyboard? My guess would be that one row of the keyboard matrix is faulty causing the row of keys to fail.

 

[figgypowerstwin]

The funny thing is, now I've regained use of all those keys... every single one. It seems it fixed itself when it went back to sleep and was reawakaned. For a second, though it twitched... the keys were not functional for a few seconds. Just as suddenly the keys came back to "life". I think I might run Linux to see if it isn't software related... if it is a faulty keyboard, there is another Inspiron I have to use. I'll also run a few different antivirus apps to see if there's something virus related (funny enough, there is a virus with a name similar to 67yuhjnm), but it doesn't disable parts of the keyboard.

 

[MrBaseball]

I had a new keyboard that was doing the same thing. I RMA'd it and the replacement works great.