Why does my laptop keyboard freeze up and go nuts?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Hyphen, Feb 7, 2012.

  1. Hyphen

    Hyphen Private First Class

    Sometimes my laptop will temporarily freeze for about 4 seconds, and then when it unfreezes, the keyboard starts going nuts. Sometimes it will beep like crazy, sometimes it will retype and spam the last 4-5 sentences I've typed out, and then all of a sudden the keyboard just dies. I can't type using it, can't use my mouse to do a soft reboot because it's spamming random letters, so I have to end up doing a hard boot.

    This often occurs when I am playing Minecraft or doing other graphic-intensive things. Any idea at all why my keyboard goes nuts like this? It's becoming quite a problem when it happens in IMs with people, sometimes it magically retypes out a recent password I've entered, etc.
     
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Plug in an external keyboard and use that. This will help isolate if it is a hardware or a software problem.
     

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