keyboard lock

Discussion in 'Computer Science & Culture' started by mathman, Jul 7, 2017.

  1. mathman Valued Senior Member

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    On occasion my keyboard locks up. IBM thinkpad, Windows 7. It occurs when I am typing a message in a forum like now. Fortunately my mouse still works, so I can save the (incomplete) message and then restart the computer, freeing the keyboard. Any ideas why it is happening and is there a simpler way to free the keyboard?
     
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  3. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member

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    I've seen the problem before on Toshiba laptops. I can't say for sure in your case, but in those cases it was a hardware interrupt problem on the mainboard.

    Can you boot another OS from a USB stick, like Ubuntu or Mint? If your keyboard doesn't fail on a clean boot, look at a Windows problem. (Or many, many Windows problems...)
     
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  5. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Or the batteries are dying in his wireless keyboard...
     
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  7. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member

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    He didn't say wireless keyboard, though. He just said Thinkpad.

    That doesn't address why it comes back for a few minutes after restart. That suggests a hardware failure, but I don't have it on my bench...
     
  8. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Something like Hirens Boot Disk would work for this (boot to TinyXP and see if it happens there).
     
  9. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member

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    The latest release date I found for that tool is 2012, so I doubt it can find the problem if it is malware.

    There's something newer, I'm sure.
     
  10. mathman Valued Senior Member

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    Computer is not on battery, i.e. it is on house current. Keyboard comes back immediately after restart. Locking is a rare event.
     

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