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by acisco10

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i have to constantly watch what i am typing, cause my keyboard stops responding for up to 5 seconds sometimes. sometimes it just skips letters that i typed. and its not consistantly certain letters. they r random. i tried updating drivers, but it asks for eabusb.sys, which is not on my system. and i cant find it anywhere to download unless i join/pay for it on several websites....HELP

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by cmiller5400

Have you tried to download the chipset drivers from your laptop makers website?

BTW, it always helps to include make, model of equipment that is malfunctioning.

by oh smeg

I believe that this model was the cause of a Class Action Law Suit which HP lost. Part of the setelment was that HP agreed to fix any problems on other NB not related to this Case.

Try looking up HP and see if they have issued a recall on this model.

Col

by acisco10

i downloaded quick launch a few days ago, to no avail

by robo_dev

if you goto task manager and choose the 'Performance' tab, is the processor pegged at 100% while this is happening?

My first question would be 'got virus'?

What type of laptop, what OS?

Anything change lately..new applications?

by acisco10

how do i get to task manager? no virus. jst downloaded and ran for that. OS is XP. dont know if anything changed lately. just bought it used.

by sol knight19

Man it could be a rootkit, which will sometimes control whether the keyboard will respond or not and sometimes they are hard to detect with anti-software. Although its nothing major, could be whats affecting it

by robo_dev

press Task Manager Button, then 'Performance' tab.

If task manager will not launch, that's another problem...

by oh smeg

If that is way up you may require more RAM to do what you want to do.

Col

by quirkly

You said your keyboard stops working. My cursor relocates itself and then typing continues where ever in the text or not at all for passwords. I have to click back in place to keep typing.

I have some sort of rootkit/bootkit. Have done clean installs but those were not effective. AV finds nothing but some rootkit tools find indications but do not clean the infection. I cannot find a pro that can get them clean either. Everyone says there is no need to use dban or such but microsoft says the fix boot record utility is not adequate either. Really at a loss on what to do now. I hope you did not get this sort of infection

by older mycroft

Don't listen to what other people tell you. [i](sic)[/i]

You've listened to folk telling you NOT to use DBAN and you've still got an infection. ~ An XP Install format does not format the entire surface of the HDD, otherwise you'd never be able to recover anything after 'formatting by mistake'. Thus it is entirely feasible for a viral infection to survive an install format.

So wipe the HDD completely with DBAN then do a fresh install.

[b][u]*For Future Reference:[/b][/u]
I suggest the next time you have a problem, no matter how similar it may be to whichever thread you are reading at that time - Post your problem in a SEPARATE NEW THREAD, otherwise you run the risk of your post being ignored on the assumption that it only contains a comment, not a New problem. ;)

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