Percussive Keyboard Maintenance


cereberus

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My lapto keyboard started playing up with keypresses being repeateddddddddddddddddddd like this automatically.

I reinstated drives, made sure sticky keys were off, did registry edits on repeat and delays, blew air on keys to make sure not stuck etc.

Then it sort of worked for a few minutes so I started writing a messageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and there it was back!

At this point, I irrationally thumped the laptop keyboard hard a couple of times in exasperation, thinking I would have to replace the keyboard.
Lo and behold the keyboard now works fine at least for several hours.

Of course, any old school TV engineer knew that percussive maintenance (a good thump) works LOL.
 

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Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ16 GB solderedIntegrated Intel Iris XE
OS
Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
Computer type
Laptop
Manufacturer/Model
ASUS Zenbook 14
CPU
I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
Motherboard
Yep, Laptop has one.
Memory
16 GB soldered
Graphics Card(s)
Integrated Intel Iris XE
Sound Card
Realtek built in
Monitor(s) Displays
laptop OLED screen
Screen Resolution
2880x1800 touchscreen
Hard Drives
1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
PSU
Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
Case
Yep, got one
Cooling
Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
Keyboard
Built in UK keybd
Mouse
Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
Internet Speed
900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
Browser
Edge
Antivirus
Defender
Other Info
TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)

Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
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