Home button/Cursor problem

[tforms1]

My gf has vista installed on her laptop (don't know why it came with
the laptop, the laptop has 512 megs of ram, it would have been better
to have XP. Its a old Sony VAIO)

Last week her cursor (not mouse, keyboard cursor) has been going
crazy.
Its as if the HOME button is being pressed.

Just trying to log in, takes a few minutes to enter the password.
The cursor is fine for a second, then it jumps to the begining of the
line and keeps trying to jump.

Browsing web pages is tough, because it keeps jumping to the top of
the page, thats why I think its the Home button.

I took a look and its not stuck down.

Any ideas?
Its fully updated from the MS website.

Thanks
-Tony

 

[Malke]

My gf has vista installed on her laptop (don't know why it came with
the laptop, the laptop has 512 megs of ram, it would have been better
to have XP. Its a old Sony VAIO)

Last week her cursor (not mouse, keyboard cursor) has been going
crazy.
Its as if the HOME button is being pressed.

Just trying to log in, takes a few minutes to enter the password.
The cursor is fine for a second, then it jumps to the begining of the
line and keeps trying to jump.

Browsing web pages is tough, because it keeps jumping to the top of
the page, thats why I think its the Home button.

I took a look and its not stuck down.

I'm sorry but this does sound like a keyboard issue. Try connecting an
external USB keyboard and see if that fixes things. If it does, the
laptop's keyboard should be replaced. One other thing does come to mind -
if someone installed Vista and then didn't install drivers for all the
hardware (including the motherboard and touchpad) that might be the cause
too. Go to Sony's website and see if there are Vista drivers for that model
machine. If there aren't, then take Vista off and put XP back on.

You are quite correct that Vista will barely run with 512MB. You need at
least 1GB and that isn't really enough. I wouldn't run Vista with less than
2GB. That laptop really isn't suitable for Vista.

Malke