urbandruid: (Constant Vigilance (lovesoldier))
urbandruid ([personal profile] urbandruid) wrote2007-01-25 03:37 pm

stupid fucking keybord

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.
g_shadowslayer: (DL Need Coffee!)

[personal profile] g_shadowslayer 2007-01-25 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] analise.livejournal.com 2007-01-26 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
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.