Keyboard virus?

About an hour ago my wireless keyboard started missing 'most' letter out

Replaced the batts and it still missing letters (took me ages to type this)

I can't help thinking it's a virus - sound familiar?

JethroUK© wrote:
> About an hour ago my wireless keyboard started missing 'most' letter out
> Replaced the batts and it still missing letters (took me ages to type this)
>
> I can't help thinking it's a virus - sound familiar?

No. It doesn't sound like a virus. It sounds like your keyboard has
died. A quick test is to replace it with another keyboard (a
bog-standard ps/2 or usb one, not another wireless) and see if that
works. If all is well, replace your original keyboard.


Malke
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"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
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> About an hour ago my wireless keyboard started missing 'most' letter out
> Replaced the batts and it still missing letters (took me ages to type
> this)
>
> I can't help thinking it's a virus - sound familiar?

The keyboard of my M$ wireless keyboard/mouse combo does that occasionally.
It might happen 5 times in one week and then not again for a month. Seldom
happens more than once per day. Resyncing (button on transmitter puck and
back of keyboard) seems to help, but only for a minute or two. After maybe
20 minutes, the problem goes away. Like you I tried replacing batts to no
avail. Sometimes I think it may be a radio interference problem. 99.9
percent of the time, the keyboard works perfectly.

-Paul Randall

JethroUK© wrote:
> About an hour ago my wireless keyboard started missing 'most' letter out
> Replaced the batts and it still missing letters (took me ages to type this)
>
> I can't help thinking it's a virus - sound familiar?

First try plugging in a non-wireless keyboard and see if it has the same
problem. If it does not, my guess would be something interfering with
your wireless signal for the keyboard. Try repositioning the keyboard
or receiver and see if it helps. Good luck.


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"Malke" <> wrote in message
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> JethroUK© wrote:
>> About an hour ago my wireless keyboard started missing 'most' letter out
>> Replaced the batts and it still missing letters (took me ages to type
>> this)
>>
>> I can't help thinking it's a virus - sound familiar?
>
> No. It doesn't sound like a virus. It sounds like your keyboard has died.
> A quick test is to replace it with another keyboard (a bog-standard ps/2
> or usb one, not another wireless) and see if that works. If all is well,
> replace your original keyboard.
>
>

I didn't have a spare keyboard but i do still have my old PC and when i
tried my keyboard & mouse in that it worked fine which was worrying

For the benefit of anyone else with similar issue - I did notice that when
changing the two over that the wires were all entangled at the back and when
i tried them back in my new machine it worked ! ) - I was only one step
away from reinstalling the whole o/s