Not a keyboard Problem?!?

[John R. Youngman]

Hi. Dell Dimension XP Pro that ran fine until today. I thought that the
problem was a stuck key (the zero on the number pad). In Word or Excel the
screen fills with zeroes. When I turn off the Num Lock the zeroes stop, and
the insert/overwrite message appears. The buffer also fills up and which
you can then hear through the speakers.

I switched keyboards--thinking that my zero key must be stuck or
malfunctioning. New keyboard does same thing. I then unplugged (USB) the
keyboard and the zeroes keep coming!

So, this must be a problem with the motherboard or some weird virus (current
virus and spam protection--no errors or problems).

Any ideas?

TIA

John

 

[Davy]

Have you tried unplugging the power cord, leaving about three minute
and rebooting..

Dav

 

[dannysdailys]

John R. Youngmanwrote
Hi. Dell Dimension XP Pro that ran fine until today. I thought tha
the

problem was a stuck key (the zero on the number pad). In Word o Excel the
screen fills with zeroes. When I turn off the Num Lock the zeroe stop, and
the insert/overwrite message appears. The buffer also fills up an which
you can then hear through the speakers

I switched keyboards--thinking that my zero key must be stuck or
malfunctioning. New keyboard does same thing. I then unplugge (USB) the
keyboard and the zeroes keep coming

So, this must be a problem with the motherboard or some weird viru (current
virus and spam protection--no errors or problems)

Any ideas

TI

Joh

Not really, huh, people have the weirdest problems here. LO

What you may try, when booting, boot into the bios and made sur
Keyboard USB is enabled. I don't use USB keyboards, so I'm no
familar with the problems they can have

You mentioned another keyboard did the same thing. Was this USB a
well? If it was, try finding a PS2 keyboard and assuming you hav
the jack for it; try that one

 

[Cody]

Or turning off your microphone?

Cody

 

[John R. Youngman]

Hi Davy.

Tried all the simple things. Unplugged power, disconnected from Internet,
tried both USB and PS/2 keyboards...nothing seems to work.

Very weird...

Thanks anyway.

John

 

[John R. Youngman]

Don't have a mic attached. Not sure how/why that would have anything to do
with this, but who knows?!?

Thanks anyway.

John

 

[kony]

Hi. Dell Dimension XP Pro that ran fine until today. I thought that the
problem was a stuck key (the zero on the number pad). In Word or Excel the
screen fills with zeroes. When I turn off the Num Lock the zeroes stop, and
the insert/overwrite message appears. The buffer also fills up and which
you can then hear through the speakers.

I switched keyboards--thinking that my zero key must be stuck or
malfunctioning. New keyboard does same thing. I then unplugged (USB) the
keyboard and the zeroes keep coming!

So, this must be a problem with the motherboard or some weird virus (current
virus and spam protection--no errors or problems).

It is ONLY in Word and Excel? Open a plain text document or
email to reply, - whatever. See if it produces these zeros.

If it doesn't, you probably have a maco virus of some sort
and should look through you office files. Of course you
should also scan with antivirus, spyware scanners, etc.