KaratonE

Well, we all need help in something. I have a newer model Dell, just over 1 year old, It's a custom (as in I went through the order customization process) Dimension E521. It was acting up few months ago, but tonight, I put a mouse in and it actually worked, a few months ago, all the ports were down, USB, including mouse and keyboard plug-ins, so I started using my laptop. Well, tonight I got a mouse to work fine, so the ports are back to normal, but my problem is, and I'm pretty sure it's a driver error, my keyboard or ANY keyboard is not functioning properly at all, I must hold down one key for about 2 seconds to get it to type a letter, this goes the same with any other key, it's impossible to type "computer" on it without sitting there for 5 minutes. I've tried many different keyboards and I don't know what's wrong, I opened it up and cleaned it out and still no effect, I was wondering if anyone here knows what to do about it, I can give you more info if you need it, but I'm really hoping for an answer because you know the whole thing about "Dell Service" and prices just for telling you how you broke it and Best Buy charging you and it just breaks again (happened before). So I thank all of you who took the time to read it, if you have any answers or suggestions, it's greatly appriciated.

Joe.

I've been to many other sites looking for help and answers, and found none, could someone here help me?

JlCollins005

Have u tried Restoring windows or a new install, possibly a bios update

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KaratonE

Well no, but since everything else works perfectly, I didn't think it would be that, another thing is, I was told to download the drivers from dell from another forum and I installed it, but my keyboard only works when I'm either shutting down or starting up, but once it hits the desktop, goes right back to not typing.
Should I restore windows or whatever?

cohen

Could be a wire has broken in the keyboard lead and is causing it to do this... but otherwise i would say it is a driver issue.

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KaratonE

I said in the paragraph that I've tried more than one keyboard, so it might be a driver issue, which I've been trying to fix, but no luck.

cohen

OK sorry - have you reinstalled the driver...

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JlCollins005

id try a fresh install of windows

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60GB Hdd
Cdrw/DVD rom
Ati 128 Vid
15.4" Glossy Widescreen

KaratonE

Well I don't want to do that because I don't want to have to reinstall all the programs I have on there.

JlCollins005

well at his current moment i cant suggest ne thing else cuz u have already tried drivers so something is conflicting

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60GB Hdd
Cdrw/DVD rom
Ati 128 Vid
15.4" Glossy Widescreen

cohen

*ding* what port are you using?????

PS2 or USB???

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