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Posted by Gwen (Member # 9551) on :

Why would my computer act like I'm typing like this:

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W@hy w2o9u7ld my co9mp0u7te3r4 act li8ke3 I*'m typ0i8ng li8ke3 thi8s w2he3n I*'m no9t typ0i8ng anythi8ng bu7t le3tte3r4s? I*t's no9t nu7m lo9ck be3cau7se3 i8t's do9i8ng nu7mbe3r4 that ar4e3n't e3ve3n o9n the3 le3tte3r4s. I*t's ki8nda i8r4r4i8tati8ng to9 have3 to9 ke3e3p0 go9i8ng back and de3le3ti8ng all the3 e3xtr4a char4acte3r4s e3ve3r4y ti8me3 I* typ0e3. I* tr4i8e3d r4star4ti8ng my co9mp0u7te3r4, bu7t i8t di8dn't he3lp0. I*t o9nly star4te3d thi8s mo9r4ni8ng.

when I'm not typing anything but letters? It's not num lock because it's doing number that aren't even on the letters. It's kinda irritating to have to keep going back and deleting all the extra characters every time I type. I tried rstarting my computer, but it didn't help. It only started this morning.

Hmm, looks like it's only doing it on the top row...acting like "qwer" is the numbers 1-4 (and vice-versa) and "uiop" is 7-9. It doesn't do it to punctuation (like the square brackets), unless it's punctuation made by shift-number (like both parentheses). Any ideas?

[ August 20, 2006, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: Gwen ]

Posted by Gwen (Member # 9551) on :

Never mind, it went away all on its own, like hiccups. I just hoped that unlike hiccups, it won't come back again.

Watch it go away while I type a post in the Harry Potter thread:

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Ge3o9r4ge3 Lu7cas i8s Vo9lde3mo9r4t, and the3 Star4 W@ar4s mo9vi8e3s ar4e3 the3 ho9r4cr4u7xe3s cr4e3ate3d w2he3n he3 mu7r4de3r4e3d the3 i8de3as o9f a p0lo9t that make3s se3nse3, char4acte3r4s w2e3 car4e3 abo9ut, and worlds far, far away and long, long ago which are not populated by humans.

Is that weird or what?

Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :

Check for viruses? Sounds like some script-kiddie got something on your system.

Or a borked keyboard. Quit drinking those sodas when you're working! [Big Grin]

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

From what I see, it looks like what happens to me when I hit an adjacent key along with the one I mean to hit. To have that happen for so long is very unusual, though ...

Posted by Gwen (Member # 9551) on :

Probably just a temporary hardware glitchy thing...it fixed itself, at least, for which I'm grateful. I *know* I'm not that clumsy when I type!
So I'm going with the borked keyboard hypothesis. Though I know it's not soda-drunk-while-working: I don't drink soda, I don't eat or drink around my computer, and I'm definitely not working on here! [Wink]