Windows 10: HP Windows Keyboard going completely crazy!!

Somebody help!I literally did nothing to my laptop and all of a sudden the keyboard is misbehaving like crazy.When I type certain letters a random string of letters and characters will appear, caps lock will turn on, and aeroplane mode will turn all at the same time. For example, if I typed the letter ‘e’ as normal, what I’d get is *qwe or PRIOU********. If I press another key, different windows will shut down and an emoji screen will come up. It’ll act like shift button is being held down and start opening random windows and emoji popup screens.Num lock is not on, none of the hot keys, toggle

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Thinkpad going crazy, virus, corrupt, or keyboard broken?

Hi All, Could anyone give me some insight as to what is going on here?

A friend's Thinkpad L540 Win10 Home SSD laptop (purchased refurbished, around 5-7 years old) is going crazy. It has happened suddenly, no gradual decline. Suddenly it has started going haywire. When you turn it on, first she wasn't able to log in: when you enter a single keystroke, a dozen asterisks would appear. At the same time the screen is going lighter, then darker again, out of control. I got in to a non-admin account with no password, and was unable to use the Winver command to locate the version number, or do anything. A hundred Firefox windows open, without any reason, a load of Excel windows, all manner of similar nonsense, screen going lighter and darker. I am not able to make any sense of it, not type any commands, I opened Wordpad, and for each letter I typed, a whole string of garbled letters appeared.

The keyboard looks clean, nothing has been spilled on it. I've given the keyboard a good blowing out to get rid of any crumbs etc that might have been causing issues.

I reasoned if I could start with a usb rescue disk, at least then I could tell whether it was a faulty keyboard or the OS. I managed to access Hiren's Boot CD PE, but it wouldn't let me even connect the wifi, as I couldn't type letters into the wifi password box, then the Windows accessibility voice came on out of nowhere and told me the keystrokes weren't recognised. And then it rebooted by itself.

I then tried Kaspersky Rescue CD, but again it wouldn't cooperate. All of these steps I've repeated a few times, but no change.

Could this be a faulty keyboard? I can change a keyboard but that means buying a replacement one, bit of a shame if that's not the actual problem. As I said I haven't been able to access the Windows Version number.

Is it a corrupt OS? My next step might be to reinstall Windows. She doesn't have anything on it needing saving, I would do a fresh install.

Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated,

Cheers,

 

Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.

Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

After the Windows 10 Update, Keyboard goes crazy

Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

What is the make and model of the computer?

I suggest you to check if there is any new updates available for Windows.

If you experience this issue with keyboard. I suggest you to remove the keyboard and try with different keyboard and check if the issue continues.

As you have mentioned you have updated the driver.

You may run the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool which fixes the Windows corruption error if there are any. Follow the steps:

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    Press Windows+X.
    
  • 
    Click on Command Prompt (Admin).
    
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    Type the command DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
    and hit Enter.
    

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

You can follow the steps in the following article:

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