got a new problem for ya

[sao95]

i was typing away and my keyboard locked up (this isn't on the pavilion but on the new a7n8x deluxe, one i've been having sound problems with) i couldn't type, but my multimedia buttons worked? i rebooted and it's alright, my question is do you think this is definately a mobo prob?

[Bovon]

The OS will provide (if M$) drivers for the keyboard. On several occasions, I have had hardware stop responding but a reboot will fix it.. I am not sure why, but I suspect the OS looses the drivers in the process of doing other things.. a reboot reloads the drivers. If the anomaly occurs often, it could possibly be a (slight) resource conflict..check device manager. If this continues or gets progressively worse, run a good memtest from a boot disk on your ram modules. A flaky stick of ram can cause all sorts of intermittent glitches.

[Bill in SD, CA]

While it could be , I doubt that it would be the likely cuprit.

More than likely something with system resources locking it up.

Bill

It sort of stands to reason that if it locked it up, it'd lock up the entire keyboard, not just the normal keys. But this is Windows we're talking about, logic and reason take a back seat to 'pretty.'

[Gait_Keeper]

Originally posted by Whir
It sort of stands to reason that if it locked it up, it'd lock up the entire keyboard, not just the normal keys. But this is Windows we're talking about, logic and reason take a back seat to 'pretty.'

Hmm........that's mystic

[sao95]

system resources were mentioned, what exactly are we talking about?

as for "logic and reason take a back seat to "pretty"".. i'm starting to notice that....

[John Prophet]

On my ME machine...if I was on the internet...my chicony hotkey keyboard wouldnt work in a DOS window, lol. I never really tried to figure that one out.

JP