I have a Dell Dimension 8250 with windows xp that I bought in february
2003.

I seem to be having a intermittent keyboard problem.

When I type text the letters coming out are not what I typed.

For example the letter "a" comes out as another letter and this happens

for all the letters on the keyboard.

I know enough to check device manager to see if there is
a hardware problem and the keyboard check out OK.

Could something be wrong with the keyboard driver ? or the physical
keyboard itself ?

The only way to solve this is to reboot and it goes away for awhile -
then comes back again.

Does anyone know what could be wrong ?

Thanks for your help - Jim

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>I have a Dell Dimension 8250 with windows xp that I bought in february
> 2003.
>
> I seem to be having a intermittent keyboard problem.
>
> When I type text the letters coming out are not what I typed.
>
> For example the letter "a" comes out as another letter and this happens
>
> for all the letters on the keyboard.
>
> I know enough to check device manager to see if there is
> a hardware problem and the keyboard check out OK.
>
> Could something be wrong with the keyboard driver ? or the physical
> keyboard itself ?
>
> The only way to solve this is to reboot and it goes away for awhile -
> then comes back again.
>
> Does anyone know what could be wrong ?
>
> Thanks for your help - Jim
>


Test with a different, working keyboard.