Keys: "7tgvc" randomly start and stop working on Acer.

[madtop]

On Acer Aspire laptop the keys 7,t,g,v,c randomly stop and start working. The keys stop and start working every few minutes or even less than a minute sometimes. Before I have had same issue with left right and delete.

What could be the issue?

 

[webworkings]

NOTE: If you need to type in a password to even get into Windows to do the following, make sure you attached an external keyboard first, to get past the password. Then disconnect the external keyboard and try the following...

1. Uninstall the keyboard driver.
2. Reboot the computer (without reinstalling the driver).
3. When it restarts, it should reinstall the driver on its own.

If this doesn't work, you may wish to try connecting/reconnecting an external keyboard and see if it works fine. If it does, then it could be the keys themselves that are the issue.

Also, if your device uses one, you may want to try updating the Synaptics Driver if the above doesn't help.

 

[madtop]

NOTE: If you need to type in a password to even get into Windows to do the following, make sure you attached an external keyboard first, to get past the password. Then disconnect the external keyboard and try the following...

1. Uninstall the keyboard driver.
2. Reboot the computer (without reinstalling the driver).
3. When it restarts, it should reinstall the driver on its own.

If this doesn't work, you may wish to try connecting/reconnecting an external keyboard and see if it works fine. If it does, then it could be the keys themselves that are the issue.

Also, if your device uses one, you may want to try updating the Synaptics Driver if the above doesn't help.

Tried it, nothing. Moreover, now the keys that don't work have changed again! Strange issue...

 

[webworkings]

And did you try an external keyboard?

 

[madtop]

And did you try an external keyboard?

Yes, works.

 

[webworkings]

If the external works fine, and the attached is acting up like that, then you may well have to replace it.