Keyboard Problem

Windows 7 SP1 machine. I bought a new keyboard last week. It is a wired, USB type, which replaces a PS2 wired type which was old and began having problems.

Every time I reboot, or the machine wakes up after sleep, THE FIRST key strike is missed. EXAMPLE: I type the word "dog" and get "og". This is not random. It happens EVERY time.

 

Thank you for that vital information. I never would have fixed it without your rude, I mean, SAGE advice.

I uninstalled the driver and rebooted and, lo and behold, all is the way it should be.

 

Back in the late 1950s when I was just a young fellow I would have said: "fifteen cents plus your advice will get me on the subway".

 

Apparently the problem was not a hardware problem but a software problem.

 

No software. Keyboard only.

 

Apparently so.

My old keyboard was PS2 and this one is USB2.0. That may or may not be relevant, but in any case when I connected the new keyboard last week and booted, a "bubble" appeared above the notification tray in lower right: "your new hardware is installed, etc etc". I thought that was strange. Yesterday after uninstalling the driver for the keyboard and booting, I did not get that message.

 

Unfortunately the case is not closed. The keyboard still misses the first key strike ONLY after waking up. On a reboot it acts properly.

Strange.

 

If I block the keyboard option to wake computer, and use the mouse instead, then it works as it should. There is a quirk with the first strike, and the keyboard thinks that the first strike is to wake and not to display a character.

I'll use the mouse to wake and be done with it.

Chinee software glitch.