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I have a HP Laptop with 2 GB ram and the past several days every time I am trying to type something it skips a letter or two. I use xp pro. what could be the problem?
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Hickups during typing
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Posted 23 September 2007 - 08:47 PM
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Posted 24 September 2007 - 02:16 AM
memograph1 said:
I have a HP Laptop with 2 GB ram and the past several days every time I am trying to type something it skips a letter or two. I use xp pro. what could be the problem?
Does it skip the same letters always? Or is it completely random which letters it will skip?
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Posted 24 September 2007 - 02:31 AM
Hi Memograph. Welcome to PCWorld. :-)
Please take a look at this Discussion. This individual has a HP laptop as well but with 1GB of memory. Is your situation similar to his or hers? If so, there may be more to this than a memory problem.
Additionally, as the previous two posters mentioned, please provide as much information as you can so we can help you resolve this situation.
Please take a look at this Discussion. This individual has a HP laptop as well but with 1GB of memory. Is your situation similar to his or hers? If so, there may be more to this than a memory problem.
Additionally, as the previous two posters mentioned, please provide as much information as you can so we can help you resolve this situation.
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Posted 24 September 2007 - 07:00 AM
Sorry, Let me give you more information. I have HP zd8000 P4 CPU 3.GHz, I use XPpro version 2002 sp2, 2GB RAM ATI GRHX card 258 MB RAM.
It andomly skips letters like it just skipe the letters r and d in this sentence. I use this computer for vieo editin (skiped d and g) It does a decent job. So do't know what te problem is ( N and T this time) I have spyware doctor and McAfee security. Both indicates the hard drives are lean ( c)
It andomly skips letters like it just skipe the letters r and d in this sentence. I use this computer for vieo editin (skiped d and g) It does a decent job. So do't know what te problem is ( N and T this time) I have spyware doctor and McAfee security. Both indicates the hard drives are lean ( c)
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Posted 24 September 2007 - 07:17 AM
memograph1 said:
Sorry, Let me give you more information. I have HP zd8000 P4 CPU 3.GHz, I use XPpro version 2002 sp2, 2GB RAM ATI GRHX card 258 MB RAM.
It andomly skips letters like it just skipe the letters r and d in this sentence. I use this computer for vieo editin (skiped d and g) It does a decent job. So do't know what te problem is ( N and T this time) I have spyware doctor and McAfee security. Both indicates the hard drives are lean ( c)
It andomly skips letters like it just skipe the letters r and d in this sentence. I use this computer for vieo editin (skiped d and g) It does a decent job. So do't know what te problem is ( N and T this time) I have spyware doctor and McAfee security. Both indicates the hard drives are lean ( c)
It could be a hardware/keyboard issue. It appears that the letters skipped (at least in this instance) are grouped rather tight together. I believe that keyboards are wired such that groups of keys operate off the same "circuit'. It is possible that the letters between e and y and down to c and n might be grouped together. All the letters skipped fit in that "square" of keys. Lets us know if you see letters outside of that group get skipped...if so, then it will lessen the likelihood that it is a keyboard problem along the lines of what I was thinking.
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Posted 24 September 2007 - 07:41 AM
This sounds like there maybe something running in the background that is grabbing up CPU time while you're typing. Try shutting down anything running but what you're using at the time. I have seen this happen on a few machines and it was another program that was running along with a video program that was looking on the net intermittently. Check the task manager to see what might be running.
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