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Space bar being held down for no reason
So once in a while I get these days on my Dell G5 running Windows 10 where the spacebar decides to hold itself down (without any physical holding down). ex: t h i s i s h e l l
I use the laptop screen and an external monitor + an external mouse and keyboard. So I don't use the laptop's keyboard often.
The spacebar starting its fit usually is preceded by the backlight of the laptop's keyboard turning on and then presses spacebar until I press fn+f7 which then stops it for a couple of minutes.
I have :
- uninstalled and reinstalled several times the keyboard and mouse drivers
- restarted the device a bunch of times
- entered safe mode and fixed all corrupted files
- cleaned the laptop's keyboard
- turned off the trackpad of the keyboard
- used the native troubleshooting feature, the supportassist test, the windows device tests and a bitdefender scan (all ok)
- disconnected all peripherals
- checked for updates
- basically do anything I'd find on a forum
All to no avail and the issue still makes its appearance (happened while writing this post). Please help me, it's been over 2 hours....
JOcean
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November 16th, 2019 16:00
If the external keyboard works properly then either you have a bad keyboard or a problem with the keyboard cable.
TechAstro
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November 17th, 2019 08:00
The issue still persists. However I just found out that the spacebar on the laptop's built-in keyboard doesn't work when I press it.
Hemanth_Raj
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November 12th, 2022 21:00
Same issue is being faced. Any solution??