My keyboard went crazy!!

FroGGer · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: My keyboard went crazy!!

I have the logitech mx700 keyboard and mouse set. Anyways, one day I was tried playing doom 3 mp mode and the damn thing didn't work. It was working at one moment and didn't work the next. I thought it was the game, so I opened notepad and started typing...well, everything was f****d up; pressing a did the same thing as pressing alt, pressing shift made mozilla firefox open and space bar did the same thing as the enter button. Other keys are also messed up, but not all of them. I should not that I spilled a LITTLE BIT of water on the 1-5 keys on the number pad but it was working after that for a day.
could this little spill cause the keyboard to go crazy?
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject:

are the batteries fresh?, is the reciever near metal or sources of interference, most kb's have semi spill resistand designs, but if liquid found it's way onto the circuit board area .........
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject:

^^^^what he said.

But if all of that checks out then the water did you in.

hhmmmm [ponder]watercooling a keyboard[/ponder]
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

I'm gonna WC my mouse....

Batteries are probably going dead. Mine did pretty much the same thing.....I have the same setup. A little bit of water probably didn't bother it at all, the PCB is pretty well covered against small spills.

Don't put it in the washing machine, though,
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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

I think my keyboard did go crazy because I changed the batteries and it's still crazy.
Damn, I guess I'll have to figure something out.
Thanks for your help guys
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

is it overclocked? i know that when i crank mine up to 130 words/min, i get very similiar results, ....random keystrokes, unintelligible garble, stuff like that

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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

You know what...I think I cranked up the voltage too high and it's working too hard and is taking on a mind of its own.
How can I rectify this problem?

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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:47 am Post subject:

did you forget to lock the WPM bus when you overclocked it?
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Back the voltage off on the backspace key, that should stabilize things.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

Wait i think we are all overlooking something here.

Whats the WPM to FSM ratio set at?

Remember, the higher the temperature, the fewer the pirates.
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