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Old January 14th 14, 10:38 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Keyboard malfunction?

Anyone got advice on this one?
....grandson has a new windows 8 pc on which he plays games..mostly Minecraft
= plenty of repeated keyboard action I believe!
The keyboard now does not function, but here is the unusual thing, he can
type in his password to get into Windows but then once in the keys don't
have any effect.
So this am I swapped keyboards..same result, tried plugging the keyboards in
the various front and back usb outlets again without success. USB mouse
works ok.
What could this be?
Thanks.

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Old January 15th 14, 12:41 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Keyboard malfunction?

On 14/01/2014 4:38 AM, John Smith wrote:
Anyone got advice on this one?
...grandson has a new windows 8 pc on which he plays games..mostly
Minecraft = plenty of repeated keyboard action I believe!
The keyboard now does not function, but here is the unusual thing, he
can type in his password to get into Windows but then once in the keys
don't have any effect.
So this am I swapped keyboards..same result, tried plugging the
keyboards in the various front and back usb outlets again without
success. USB mouse works ok.
What could this be?
Thanks.


Nothing at all appears or the wrong characters do?

It's obviously not a hardware issue. The only thing I can imagine is a
corrupted keyboard driver though I have to admit that I never, in my
life, saw a keyboard driver ever fail.
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Old January 15th 14, 12:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Andy Burns[_2_]
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Default Keyboard malfunction?

John Smith wrote:

can type in his password to get into Windows but then once in the
keys don't have any effect. What could this be?


USB legacy device emulation setting in BIOS?

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Old January 15th 14, 12:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
John Smith[_10_]
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Default Keyboard malfunction?

Thanks for all the advice.
After a bit of trial and error..
The answer was sticky keys!
Thanks again.
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...

John Smith wrote:

can type in his password to get into Windows but then once in the
keys don't have any effect. What could this be?


USB legacy device emulation setting in BIOS?

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Old January 15th 14, 02:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Keyboard malfunction?

On 15/01/2014 6:43 AM, John Smith wrote:
Thanks for all the advice.
After a bit of trial and error..
The answer was sticky keys!
Thanks again.
=================

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...

John Smith wrote:

can type in his password to get into Windows but then once in the
keys don't have any effect. What could this be?


USB legacy device emulation setting in BIOS?


That makes sense though I always thought that sticky keys only got
enabled AFTER logging into the operating system and enabling it manually.
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