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October 13th, 2011 22:00
Underscore key is PMSing
Hello,
Today my underscore key has decided that it has a mind of its own and will only work randomly when I hold shift and press -.
Example of me pressing - ten different times with shift held down (should produce ten underscores):
-‑‑‑_‑‑‑___
As you can imagine this is very frustrating. I'm starting to get very angry. I only have the one year limited warranty on this laptop and I only bought it a month ago. Any suggestions? I keep my keyboard very clean and I did pop the key off to check it just in case. So dirt or dust is obviously not the issue here, especially seeing as how the hyphens show up instead when the key is pressed and there is quite obviously nothing wrong with my shift key.
ejn63
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October 14th, 2011 04:00
The Dell diagnostics (F12 at powerup) includes a keyboard test - run that.
DELL-Royan S
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October 14th, 2011 04:00
Hi,
Welcome to the Community. Does this happen with only a certain application or anywhere. Click on start, run, type in cmd and press enter, try using the underscore key in the black box to check if it works.
Thank you
Royan
speedstep
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October 14th, 2011 05:00
There is something wrong with the keyboard or the interface if an external USB keyboard does not do the same thing.
Has there been any liquid spilled into the laptop?