Laptop keyboard issues

[Quest]

Anyone run into the problem of not being able to type
certain letters while the shift key is held down? If I
put caps lock on, the specific letters will type in
capitals. Also, two of the directional arrows don't work
at all. Interestingly, the "sticky keys" notification
comes up sometimes while the problem is occurring.

I would think it was a malfunctioning keyboard but for the
caps lock thing.

Thnak you.

Kyle

[Sharon F]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:11:32 -0700, Quest wrote:

> Anyone run into the problem of not being able to type
> certain letters while the shift key is held down? If I
> put caps lock on, the specific letters will type in
> capitals. Also, two of the directional arrows don't work
> at all. Interestingly, the "sticky keys" notification
> comes up sometimes while the problem is occurring.
>
> I would think it was a malfunctioning keyboard but for the
> caps lock thing.
>
> Thnak you.
>
> Kyle

Still sounds like a shift key problem to me. Cap Lock and Shift send
different signals even though the result is upper case characters (at least
for the alphabet). Also.. the keyboard shortcut for StickyKeys is pressing
Shift 5 times. That it is activating now and then would indicate that a
repeated shift command is being sent.

There may be a contact problem with the two arrow keys as well.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User