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TechAstro

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November 16th, 2019 12:00

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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    Posted 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.

    I am not a Dell employee...I am forum volunteer

    Serious work on an E5430 and constantly building and working on an i5-6500 Desktop

  • TechAstro

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    Posted 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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    Posted November 12th, 2022 21:00

    Same issue is being faced. Any solution??