Weird Keyboard Problem

[WildPegasus]

Keyboard Problem

Every now and then (randomly it seems) my keyboards just messes up on me. It makes all my text caps even though caps is turned off, a click of a link always opens in a new window, virtually can't use enter or shift and all this sort of stuff until I mess around with fn, alt, scroll, and some other random buttons. At which point it reverts to normal. Though it doesn't always work.

I'm running a month old Presario V5000 laptop on Windows XP. If this was posted in the wrong board please feel free to move it.

Thanks.

 

[pctechmike1]

This actually should go in the General forum. Anyway, on with your issue.
With this being a new laptop, not much chance of the keyboard being damaged- you didn't spill anything, did you? If you have to play with it some, it makes me think it's more software related, something within your laptop is messing with Windows. I would do a Google search on the problem- keyboard on V5000 acting strange- or something of that sort. See what you get.

 

[WildPegasus]

Im trying to repost this on general, can't seem to do that.

And I searched google and nothing relevant came up.

 

[pctechmike1]

Google gave me this:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=ie&docname=c00469571&product=1832426&dlc=en&lang=en

Google actually gave me the Web site. Then I put in your model notebook. Then I did a search in Help and Support for "keyboard". This was the second link.

Hope this helps.