"New" keyboard problems...

steveinaz
steveinaz Posts: 19,538
edited April 2 in Clubhouse Archives
Ok you hardware geeks, ever since I got my new Dell at work, the damn keyboard likes to repeat characters liiikee this. I've found alot of people on the internet having the same problem. Have you guys seen much of this? Is it something to do with the way they are making keyboards lately?

I've trieed everything, set the repeat rate and repeat time to the slowest settings; reloaded the driver, try a different new Dell keyboardd, etc.
It's a Dell SK-8115 keyboard for an Optiplx GX520 workstation running Windows XP professional.
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited June 2006
    Check the Accessibility Options. Sounds like something is turned on with that. I had it happen a while back but don't remember exactly what I did to turn it off, but it was in there.
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  • Kris Siegel
    Kris Siegel Posts: 309
    edited June 2006
    I haven't had this problem with Dell keyboards, however; I find Apple's keyboards too sensative for me and when I primarily worked on Macs, I found my letters repeating in the same way.

    I'd suggest a new keyboard as I don't think there are many settings to can adjust to completely fix an issue like that.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited June 2006
    have any non-Dell branded keyboards laying around?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2006
    Yeah, I'm gonna put my old HP keyboard on the system. I was just curious as to what is causing this recent "rash" of repeating keyboards...though maybe you IT guys had the inside scoop...

    I tried a 2nd new Dell keyboard (same model), it does it too. It's almost like the keyboard is overly senssitive--SEE there it goes again. Drives me nuts, everytime I compose an email, I gotta spend 5 minutes looking for the repeated characters.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2006
    DaveMuell wrote:
    Check the Accessibility Options. Sounds like something is turned on with that. I had it happen a while back but don't remember exactly what I did to turn it off, but it was in there.

    I checked, nothing wwas selected.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2006
    Kris Siegel wrote:
    I haven't had this problem with Dell keyboards, however; I find Apple's keyboards too sensative for me and when I primarily worked on Macs, I found my letters repeating in the same way.

    I'd suggest a new keyboard as I don't think there are many settings to can adjust to completely fix an issue like that.

    Kris
    Alot of what I'm seeing on the web is Mcintosh related, though there are some PC users having the mysterious repeating keyboard problem too.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2006
    steveinaz wrote:
    I checked, nothing wwas selected.

    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
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  • simian
    simian Posts: 1
    edited June 2006
    Hullo

    i work in the IT dept of a large public service, and most of our users have Dell Sk-8115 keyboards.

    The repeating character problem crops up a lot. What pointed me toward the solution was the fact that the users who had this problem most frequently were also those most fond of eating biscuits.

    In cases where clearing biscuit debris from underneath the keycaps has no effect, the problem is usually that a crumb has worked it's way underneath the white rubbery bit beneath the keycaps. (Mylar, is it?)

    So unscrewing the back of the keyboard, lifting the mylar up from the contacts, and giving the offending area a bit of a blow and shake, often works wonders.

    i literally did this five minutes ago with an sk-8115 that preferred "88", where an "8" would do.
    Now look at it! 8 space 8 space 8 space 8 space 8 space. ah lovely :)

    Hope this sorts you out Steveinaz.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited June 2006
    Dell Keyboard problem HeHe...

    Not to make fun but Dell wouldn't be in business if it wasn't selling 100's of thousand of units to large corporations. IMHO they make crap now.

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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited June 2006
    Go buy a logitech keyboard and mouse. I have them at work and at home and I love them.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited June 2006
    I don't know if this may help, but check it out anyway......I have a Microsoft keyboard and it does that too......but......I'm sure it's not the keyboard because it seems to happen only when "send/receive" engages in Outlook and an e-mail comes in. So if I happen to be typing when an e-mail comes in, I get the repeated key syndrome.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited June 2006
    I'm not sure how many keyboards Dell makes, but over the last few semesters at school I've grown very fond of the Dell keyboards they have. Full-size, but not too large, and they're fairly quite. I'd like to get one for my computer!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited June 2006
    simian wrote:
    The repeating character problem crops up a lot. What pointed me toward the solution was the fact that the users who had this problem most frequently were also those most fond of eating biscuits.

    I think there is enough food debris in my Dell at work to make a whole sandwich.

    Maybe steveinaz has really heavy fingers. :p
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