Here are some suggestions:

If the keyboard is wireless, the batteries may be getting low or the 
receiver is blocked by something.
If it is wired, it may be loose.
If it is a USB wire, try another USB port.
Can you try another keyboard?
As temporary quick fix, Word (and possibly other programs) has a automatic 
save feature you can set to every second even  (tools>options>save).




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[PCBUILD] Computer Keyboard Going Away






I have an Emachine running Windows XP Home. Once in a while - fortunately, 
infrequently - my keyboard will go away. The computer (or Windows 
operating system) can't see it and the only way I can get things back to 
normal is to reboot the machine. I have been unable to figure out if it is 
related to a specific program or not, as I said it doesn't happen very 
often.

Does anyone have a clue or, equally important, is there a way to recover 
the keyboard without rebooting the machine? Sometimes when it quits, I am 
in Word or notepad or some other program entering some sort of data and 
will lose some of it. If I have saved the data before the problem I can 
use the mouse to save what I have typed since then but, If I have just 
started to do something by creating a new file, I cannot do a 'save as' 
and type in a file name and simply have to reboot.

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