Dell Dimension 8250 keyboard problem.

[jlowenha]

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

 

[Rock]

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.