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Old 08-14-2006, 09:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
jpfltsim
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Dell Inspiron 1200 keyboard problems

Hi Everyone

I have a Inspiron 1200 with some serious keyboard issues. I purchased the laptop a little over a year ago and so I'm no longer covered under warranty. The laptop was working fine for a whole year until today when all of sudden everything went wrong without me spilling anything on the keyboard. These are the problems I've been having:
1. when I press the t key, I get t and 4 (t4)
2. when I press the y key, I get y7
3. when I press the 3 key, a "Find" window pops up
allowing me to search for text
4. when I press the 0 key, I get [0
5. if I want to delete a line of text and I press and hold
the backspace key, only one character is deleted
6. pressing the "end" key also activates the right click
button on my touch pad
7. pressing "2" also activates the Caps Lock

The problem seems to be that when I press certain keys, they perform the correct function in addition to performing another, undesired function. To give an idea of how frustrating this problem is, I have been writing this email for over an hour because I constantly have to stop and erase the extra 7's and 4's and turn off the
Caps Lock as I'm typing... Please help!!!
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