Re: Typing Problem..plz help!!

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:35:14 -0700

3T wrote:

> My mouse has been quite *crazy* these days..sometimes while I was
> using it, suddenly the arrow just move around, jumping to places when
> i try to move the mouse. Usually after that, I cannot type anything,
> like when I try to type,
> weird characters appear instead of the normal words. The other day,
> it happened again, so I restart my laptop (before when it happen I
> alway restart window and everything came back to normal), but this
> time when the welcome screen came
> up and I click the user name to type the password. Strangely when i
> tried to
> type, nothing appear in the password box. Does that mean the keyboard
> have problem, or is that the hard drive (or whatever else)'s problem?
> So you see, because I can't type, so I can't enter the password to
> login the laptop, that's why I can't figure out what is the real
> problem. If anyone have informations or solutions on how to solve this
> problem, please reply asap..tq

Does the issue occur in Safe Mode? If it doesn't, then try reinstalling
your mouse/touchpad drivers. Since this is a laptop, you can't test the
keyboard with the simple way of swapping it out with a different one.
One way to determine if you have hardware or software (Windows
operating system ) issues is to boot with Knoppix, a Linux distro that
runs from cd. If you still have keyboard/mouse problems in Linux, then
you know your hardware is bad and you'll need to contact the laptop
mftr. for tech support.

Malke 

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