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- From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: "Stuck" keys in OS/2
- Message-ID: <BALDWIN.92Aug28121209@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:12:09 GMT
- Sender: news@usna.NAVY.MIL
- Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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- What the heck's going on? If this were only happening to me, I'd think I
- was insane, but it's happening on at least one other machine (yes, to another
- operator).
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- Does anyone else have a "stuck" key problem in OS/2? I've seen this happen
- in PM, OS/2 full screen, DOS full screen and various apps. The system
- suddenly behaves as if one or more of Alt, Shift and/or Ctrl are being held
- down. The keyboard is not sticking physically, and I am certainly not holding
- these keys down at the time.
-
- I notice this when strange things happen like, for example, clicking an icon
- and suddenly finding myself editing its name (stuck Alt key), or hitting the
- ESC key and suddenly finding myself in the task list (stuck Ctrl key).
-
- This got EXTREMELY irritating yesterday when I hit DEL to delete a character
- in WordPerfect and rebooted the machine (stuck you-guess-which-? keys).
-
- Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Are my office-mate and I INSANE?
- If you have a clue, please post or reply. I'll summarize replies if there's
- interest. Of course, I could call IBM (and fully intend to), but I'd like
- to know whether there is anywhere else this is happening before doing so.
-
- I'm running a UNISYS 386 with 16MB of memory and a SCSI disk, in case it
- matters.
- --
- From the catapult of: |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
- _,_ J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
- _|70|___:::)=}- U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under
- \ / baldwin@usna.navy.mil |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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