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MistressDarkArt -> Keyboard Hanging Up (10/21/2013 9:34:55 PM)

Usually happens in the evenings and has been going on for months. I'm typing along about 100 wpm and before I know it half the characters are lost. I notice no other computer-related problems, and at other times of the day it seems absolutely fine. It is a wireless keyboard; the batteries are new.

Any guesses?




DomKen -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/21/2013 11:34:54 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt

Usually happens in the evenings and has been going on for months. I'm typing along about 100 wpm and before I know it half the characters are lost. I notice no other computer-related problems, and at other times of the day it seems absolutely fine. It is a wireless keyboard; the batteries are new.

Any guesses?

1) Is something possibly blocking the line of sight to the receiver? A cat perhaps?
2) Does moving it closer to the receiver help?
3) Does it only happen after the keyboard and computer have been on for a while?
4) Do you notice the keyboard or computer getting warm when this occurs?




Kitsuneboi -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 2:02:12 AM)

When my computer does that, its when I'm having it process way too much at once.




sloguy02246 -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 4:42:32 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Kitsuneboi

When my computer does that, its when I'm having it process way too much at once.



Now that you've brought that up, it makes me wonder if the OP's wireless keyboard utilizes some type of buffer, and the OP is typing faster than the keyboard's buffer can transfer the keystrokes to the program.




freedomdwarf1 -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 4:58:17 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sloguy02246


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ORIGINAL: Kitsuneboi

When my computer does that, its when I'm having it process way too much at once.



Now that you've brought that up, it makes me wonder if the OP's wireless keyboard utilizes some type of buffer, and the OP is typing faster than the keyboard's buffer can transfer the keystrokes to the program.

Even in the old days waaay before pentiums were invented, that is virtually impossible.
Why? Because your keyboard can't send characters faster than a buffer could receive them.
A buffer, any buffer, is Ram - that's about a million times faster than any keyboard output.

However, it could possibly be tiredness - not pressing the keys hard enough to register.
My OH does that quite a bit late in the evening when she's typing her book.
Or, possibly, you have something else running in the background that is using up the CPU cycles and thereby 'missing' the device interrupt that the keyboard creates on every keystroke.

Of course, that assumes that the keyboard itself doesn't have a hardware issue somewhere that only manifests itself during the evening (heat, humidity, other external wireless activity etc).
If the batteries are new~ish and it behaves itself at other times, I would be looking at other external influences causing interference. Some household appliances cause RF interference for wireless devices.

Personally, I would never have a wireless anything because of external interference causing problems.
I have tried it twice in recent years and gone back to wired stuff.





MistressDarkArt -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 11:27:38 AM)


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ORIGINAL: DomKen


1) Is something possibly blocking the line of sight to the receiver? A cat perhaps?



Why DomKen, how did you know?! [8D] Seriously, it's doing it now, it's late morning, and the cat has been into his nap on the couch away from the keyboard for several hours now (he had a hard night sleeping.)

Come to think of it, a friend had the same problem. Thinking it was the keyboard itself, she replaced it and is still having the problem. I'm going to dig out the wired keyboard to see if it does it also. If it does, I'll know something is hanging the computer itself.

Not typing hard enough doesn't seem the case here; I just need to slow the keystrokes down to a literal crawl. In a few minutes the hanging up abates for a while.




LookieNoNookie -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 4:39:33 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt

Usually happens in the evenings and has been going on for months. I'm typing along about 100 wpm and before I know it half the characters are lost. I notice no other computer-related problems, and at other times of the day it seems absolutely fine. It is a wireless keyboard; the batteries are new.

Any guesses?


Excellent question MsDark....I've done extensive research on your dilemma and, well...you're computer's fucked up.

I'm here M-F, 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Pacific time.




DomKen -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/22/2013 6:45:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MistressDarkArt


quote:

ORIGINAL: DomKen


1) Is something possibly blocking the line of sight to the receiver? A cat perhaps?



Why DomKen, how did you know?! [8D] Seriously, it's doing it now, it's late morning, and the cat has been into his nap on the couch away from the keyboard for several hours now (he had a hard night sleeping.)

Come to think of it, a friend had the same problem. Thinking it was the keyboard itself, she replaced it and is still having the problem. I'm going to dig out the wired keyboard to see if it does it also. If it does, I'll know something is hanging the computer itself.

Not typing hard enough doesn't seem the case here; I just need to slow the keystrokes down to a literal crawl. In a few minutes the hanging up abates for a while.

OK.

There is a buffer between your keyboard and computer and it can fill up if the computer is busy doing something. If you do not have a lot of processes running its likely a virus or malware doing something not good.

Run a virus scan, preferably a complete or boot scan (different AV's call it different things), and a malware scan. Ideally you should get two different malware scanners and run both one after the other, with brand new definitions downloaded.




MistressDarkArt -> RE: Keyboard Hanging Up (10/27/2013 8:39:01 PM)

Thought I would return to let you know using the original wired keyboard has taken care of the problem.




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