stupid fucking keybord

[urbandruid]

I'm writing this from Semagic, one of those LJ update clients you can donload. I'm posting this way because my keyboard is being teh evol. It keeps doing this thing where a bunch of keys on one side don't want to work, including a couple I need to type my username & password. This is frustrating enough, because one of the keys that isn't working is the 'a'. Every time I want to type it, I have to copy/paste it. You don't even want to know how much trouble I had e-mailing my Psych prof, & that's something I had to do today. Oh yeah, and I just noticed there's a typo in the damn thing- "nd" instead of 'and'. I really don't know why this keeps happening, but it's starting to drive me nuts. There's nothing in the keyboard, I didn't spill anything on it... and it's just those couple keys on the one side. 'a', 'w', two, three, & q. I don't get it, but it's really fucking obnoxious, and it's taken me like half an hour to write this, with the c/p & all.

am defragging my hard drive, for whatever that might be worth. Maybe it'll help, I dunno.

This is too fucking frustrting, I'm gonna have to go try and figure out how to fix this.

Ugh. Can't even type fast enough to really get the anger out. Takes too fucking long.

argh! ('scuse the typos, btw, that I missed when I was c/p'ing.

Comments

[g_shadowslayer]

Gods, how frustrating!

I've got a bad feeling since it's all the keys in that one area that there might be something broken in the wiring/whatever it is underneath the keys that actually transmits the keystrokes to the computer... Obviously that's not helping you at all, but maybe it's something you can get fixed at a Best Buy or something like that?

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm afraid you might be right 'bout that, damnit. Can't really think what else it could be at this point, since I kno there's nothing stuck there, and I didn't spill anything... Ugh. I so do not need this right now. Prolly will try to get it in someplace this weekend.

[g_shadowslayer]

Yeah. The fact that it spontaneously fixed itself last night makes me think it's a loose wire or something. Dunno how quick a fix that is, but I can't imagine it would be TOO hellish... I hope!

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think so, 'speclly as that's not the first time it hasn't worked- or the first time it's spontaniously gotten better ...& it's doing it again, right now. I'm c/p'ing letters again, which does not make happy Chris, lemmie tell ya. Ugh. Guess I know wht I'm doing with my spare time this morning at school.

[analise.livejournal.com]

Or, you know, if this is just a regular keyboard and not a laptop, you could get another one fairly inexpensively. Probably for the same cost as getting somebody to repair it.

Or you might could try going to the "hardware" tab under keyboard properties on your control panel and seeing if it says if the keyboard is having problems. There's also a troubleshooting button there.

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only. Nope, it's a laptop. Thanks for the tip about the control panel, though. It says the keyboard's working properly- hah!- but I'll see what the troubleshooter has to say.

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

Hope it works.

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

alas, no luck yet, but ty for the hug & the cute kitten icon! :)

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

I love that icon. It's so cute.