weirdest keyboard problem I have ever seen

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freakinaye

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Here is the deal:

CTRL+ALT+DLT works to bring up logon menu. This is a dell laptop running widows xp pro btw. I can not insert any letters normally by typing them on the oboard keyboard (the laptop one) and the wireless keyboard hooked up to it. If I hit "s" the shutdown menu appears like I just hit CTRL-S or something. Same thing for "o" and "d" since those letter are underlined. If I actually hit CTRL+S nothing happens. So I change password to be blank so I can atleast logon. I bring up word and try to type in something...nothing happens. If I hit any of the underlines letters like "v" the view menu drops down.

The mouse even seems to be having its own uinque problems. If I double click a folder to open it up, the properties menu shows up instead. I have to right click open just to bring it up.

Any ideas how to make my stuff work again?
 
I should also note (to make it clear) that it is not the keyboard itself since I plugged in a brand new keyboard to the USB port and it suffers the exact same problem (so a total of 3 keyboards including the laptop keyboard suffer this problem).
 
try using a regular SP2 keybaord if you can, it might solve the problem. My wireless keybaord deosn't work in BIOS at all, so use an old keybaord that deosn't use USB.
 
savagenator said:
try using a regular SP2 keybaord if you can, it might solve the problem. My wireless keybaord deosn't work in BIOS at all, so use an old keybaord that deosn't use USB.
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I hope you mean PS/2... and most lappies dont have PS/2 ports. You should try to go to the Keyboard Properties area in the control panel, see if any of the settings there are changed somehow.
 
I did go into the keyboard properties in the control panel. There wasn't anything there to help fix this problem. The laptop doesn't have a PS/2 port.
 
It sounds like the keyboard controller of the motherboard in the laptop is bad. You can try to have it repaired, but it probably won't be worth it. Time to get a new laptop... :(
 
did you check to see if the sticky keys option is on, because it sounds like everything works like the ctrl key is pressed.
 
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