Laptop Keyboard Gone Crazy

HP Pavilion G60 laptop
Vista Home Premium

Out of nowhere, my keyboard has literally gone crazy. Almost every key
stroke results in either a different letter, or a random series of
letters/numbers/actions. I actually had to connect an external USB keyboard
just to enter the sfc /scannow command (the Enter key was whacked out, too).
Finally, I just gave up and did a System Recovery. When it finished,
amazingly the problem was still NOT solved.

Any ideas here? Could this be a motherboard problem? All input is
appreciated.

Thanks!

On 07 Dec 2011, "Dell Christopher" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> HP Pavilion G60 laptop
> Vista Home Premium
>
> Out of nowhere, my keyboard has literally gone crazy. Almost
> every key stroke results in either a different letter, or a random
> series of letters/numbers/actions. I actually had to connect an
> external USB keyboard just to enter the sfc /scannow command (the
> Enter key was whacked out, too). Finally, I just gave up and did a
> System Recovery. When it finished, amazingly the problem was
> still NOT solved.

Maybe you accidentally changed your keyboard layout. I onced loaned
my laptop to a friend and he changed it to use Dvorak. I had to
change it back to QUERTY.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...eyboard-layout

Thanks, but I did check that. Some key strokes result in 2 or 3 letter
combinations. For example, when I hit "f", it results in "stf5"!?!?


"Nil" wrote in message news:Xns9FB481849D6CBnilch1@127.0.0.1...

On 07 Dec 2011, "Dell Christopher" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> HP Pavilion G60 laptop
> Vista Home Premium
>
> Out of nowhere, my keyboard has literally gone crazy. Almost
> every key stroke results in either a different letter, or a random
> series of letters/numbers/actions. I actually had to connect an
> external USB keyboard just to enter the sfc /scannow command (the
> Enter key was whacked out, too). Finally, I just gave up and did a
> System Recovery. When it finished, amazingly the problem was
> still NOT solved.

Maybe you accidentally changed your keyboard layout. I onced loaned
my laptop to a friend and he changed it to use Dvorak. I had to
change it back to QUERTY.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...eyboard-layout

"Dell Christopher" <> wrote in message
news: m...
> Thanks, but I did check that. Some key strokes result in 2 or 3 letter
> combinations. For example, when I hit "f", it results in "stf5"!?!?
>
>
> "Nil" wrote in message news:Xns9FB481849D6CBnilch1@127.0.0.1...
>
> On 07 Dec 2011, "Dell Christopher" <> wrote in
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>
>> HP Pavilion G60 laptop
>> Vista Home Premium
>>
>> Out of nowhere, my keyboard has literally gone crazy. Almost
>> every key stroke results in either a different letter, or a random
>> series of letters/numbers/actions. I actually had to connect an
>> external USB keyboard just to enter the sfc /scannow command (the
>> Enter key was whacked out, too). Finally, I just gave up and did a
>> System Recovery. When it finished, amazingly the problem was
>> still NOT solved.
>
> Maybe you accidentally changed your keyboard layout. I onced loaned
> my laptop to a friend and he changed it to use Dvorak. I had to
> change it back to QUERTY.
>
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...eyboard-layout


Sounds like perhaps open it up and clean might be in order, e.g. something
stuck underneath keyboard.

On 07 Dec 2011, "Dell Christopher" <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> Thanks, but I did check that. Some key strokes result in 2 or 3
> letter combinations. For example, when I hit "f", it results in
> "stf5"!?!?

OK. Here's another idea... A while back I accidentally enabled a
Windows "accessiblility" feature that made the keys "sticky". It
would act like you had your finger on the Ctrl or Fn key, which made
the other keys do unexpected things. Here's Microsoft's page on that
feature:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/W...-easier-to-use

On 12/7/11 1:47 PM, pjp wrote:

> Sounds like perhaps open it up and clean might be in order, e.g. something
> stuck underneath keyboard.

My thought also.



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On 12/07/2011, Ken Springer posted:
> On 12/7/11 1:47 PM, pjp wrote:

>> Sounds like perhaps open it up and clean might be in order, e.g. something
>> stuck underneath keyboard.

> My thought also.

Same here.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Many thanks for the suggestions. I will try and remove the keyboard to see
what might be going on underneath.


"Dell Christopher" wrote in message
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HP Pavilion G60 laptop
Vista Home Premium

Out of nowhere, my keyboard has literally gone crazy. Almost every key
stroke results in either a different letter, or a random series of
letters/numbers/actions. I actually had to connect an external USB keyboard
just to enter the sfc /scannow command (the Enter key was whacked out, too).
Finally, I just gave up and did a System Recovery. When it finished,
amazingly the problem was still NOT solved.

Any ideas here? Could this be a motherboard problem? All input is
appreciated.

Thanks!