- Oct 18, 2015
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So there I was playing ArmA 3 with my buddies on an Exile server and out of nowhere my character freaks out, steam starts taking screenshots, the inventory is opening and closing. I didn't know what in the heck was happening so I just alt-f4ed the game out to desktop to see if it was still happening outside ArmA and that it wasn't just ArmA being weird (happens often). However, it kept happening. I couldn't type anything and I kept hearing windows 10 making bleep noises like I was pressing keys. I restarted my computer and plugged in my older BlackWidow without backlit keys and it kind of worked. It had some problems as well so I did a registry clean with CCleaner and restarted my PC. Then I started back up with the older BlackWidow and it seemed to work fine. I said "Alright, now this one works lets try the other one." The BlackWidow Ultimate does absolutely nothing like a normal keyboard. but when any key is pressed it starts inputting a never-ending combination of characters. I tested this in a text box and it looked something comparable to this:
"/y/u/u/pU?UPD 327+ /t/it/yiy/oy67o_++ /ewRYEWU+" --- but in a verrrrry long continuous, never-ending stream.
It's really hard for me to replicate the code sequence, but characters like "/" and "+" were frequently in the string of characters.
I tried uninstalling everything involving keyboard drivers for that keyboard and even uninstalled Razer Synapse, but on a restart the same thing happened again. I'm not sure what happened, but at this point I'm convinced that the keyboard is just absolutely -blam-ed. Does anyone know what would potentially screw up a Razer keyboard like that? I mean it's unusable. I had to log into Windows 10 with the on-screen click keyboard because it was that messed up whenever I pressed a key. Sometimes it wouldn't input text, allow me to backspace/delete text, or press any keys that would work. It even kind of screwed with my Logitech G 502 mouse while that keyboard was plugged in. I've had this keyboard since last December I'd say or early 2015. Is this a known bug or am I an outlier with an un-fixable problem? lol I just do not know what to do since I've tried reinstalling everything, restarting the computer, swapping keyboards (this one worked), and updating the BlackWidow Ultimate again after. Is Synapse causing this keyboard to go nuts? I know people say the keyboard may have accidentally programmed a macro, but any key I press triggers the freakout, keyboard disco party.
Thanks for reading and if this makes no sense then I will try to clarify more, but there does not seem to be anyone that can relate to this issue that I can find. If it is something with the drivers and I did not do something correctly then please let me know because this keyboard isn't even over a year old :/
EDIT: I did not spill anything on it or damage the keyboard in anyway so it, to my knowledge, is not a hardware issue. Also, I uninstalled Razer Synapse, but I'm not sure if that was causing a problem. I'm going to leave Synapse installed as I have not had it happen since, but if it does happen again then I will update this question.
"/y/u/u/pU?UPD 327+ /t/it/yiy/oy67o_++ /ewRYEWU+" --- but in a verrrrry long continuous, never-ending stream.
It's really hard for me to replicate the code sequence, but characters like "/" and "+" were frequently in the string of characters.
I tried uninstalling everything involving keyboard drivers for that keyboard and even uninstalled Razer Synapse, but on a restart the same thing happened again. I'm not sure what happened, but at this point I'm convinced that the keyboard is just absolutely -blam-ed. Does anyone know what would potentially screw up a Razer keyboard like that? I mean it's unusable. I had to log into Windows 10 with the on-screen click keyboard because it was that messed up whenever I pressed a key. Sometimes it wouldn't input text, allow me to backspace/delete text, or press any keys that would work. It even kind of screwed with my Logitech G 502 mouse while that keyboard was plugged in. I've had this keyboard since last December I'd say or early 2015. Is this a known bug or am I an outlier with an un-fixable problem? lol I just do not know what to do since I've tried reinstalling everything, restarting the computer, swapping keyboards (this one worked), and updating the BlackWidow Ultimate again after. Is Synapse causing this keyboard to go nuts? I know people say the keyboard may have accidentally programmed a macro, but any key I press triggers the freakout, keyboard disco party.
Thanks for reading and if this makes no sense then I will try to clarify more, but there does not seem to be anyone that can relate to this issue that I can find. If it is something with the drivers and I did not do something correctly then please let me know because this keyboard isn't even over a year old :/
EDIT: I did not spill anything on it or damage the keyboard in anyway so it, to my knowledge, is not a hardware issue. Also, I uninstalled Razer Synapse, but I'm not sure if that was causing a problem. I'm going to leave Synapse installed as I have not had it happen since, but if it does happen again then I will update this question.
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