[darkone3200]

I'm helping some relatives of mine with their laptop, and I've run into a strange problem. The laptop is a compaq V2000. About 70% of the time when you start it up, you will get incessant beeping and have to reboot. When you get into windows, about 50% of the time the search window (cntrl + f) will pop up about a million times regardless of whether you close it, end the process, etc. My theory is that the search results and the beeping are both caused by a malfunctioning keyboard that is sending repeated keystrokes without the keys being pressed. Any ideas on this? I removed the keyboard last night, and could find no apparent damage.

 

[darkone3200]

*bump*

 

[cjessee]

It sounds to me like a key is stuck... Here is a post from another site that may be helpful:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/...16432&admit=-682735245+1167858454469+28353475

Not the same flavor of laptop, but certainly exposes some of the *could be* diagnosis