My USB keyboard does this as well once in a while. I've just gotten so used
to USB quirks that I just reboot and move on. I did just try Tom's
suggestion. What the heck. My experience is that USB can be quite fickle
from time to time and I live with them, but beats serial or parallel
connections!
Brad Loomis
San Miguel, CA
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Dennis
If the keyboard is connected via USB, turning off the USB power
management might help. Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/USB Root Hub
(properties)/Power Management - uncheck block allowing USB to turn off
(do this for each Hub). This feature is intended for periods of
inactivity, but it MIGHT be malfunctioning.
Tom Mayer
Dennis Duke wrote:
> 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.
>
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