Toshiba Key Board

[pat47]

Hello,
The key the keyoard does not execute commands. Example: I hit space and the curser jumps to another location on the page. See the example below.

"pageon on oard does not execute commands. Example: I hit space and the curser jumps to another locati"

I typed the top texted and looked up an saw the cursor had jumped back to the line above and inserted intself mid sentence.

 

[tsnor]

(1) keyboard hardware is broken. Try a different keyboard.

(2) keyboard driver is corrupt. See if you can mouse into Device manager (right click 'computer' --> properties --> device manager. Open HID. Find and delete anything that looks like a keyboard. Reboot. Windows will find and install correct driver.

 

[beefybish]

This is usually caused by your wrist or arm brushing the touch-pad when you type (especially near the space bar), and moving the cursor to another location.

If you look at the touch-pad while typing and see if this is maybe happening. If it is, in the control panel you can change the settings so the touch-pad is temporarily turned off while you type

As you're using a laptop, tsnor's first suggestion is probably useless to you, but his second one is a good idea. Make sure you have the driver disc for your laptop (probably provided when you bought it) just in case

Hope this helps

 

[tsnor]

...As you're using a laptop, tsnor's first suggestion is probably useless to you...

Oddly enough laptops can use external keyboards too. (Edit: but I hadn't picked up the Toshiba--> laptop clue until you pointed it out)


aside: I like your touchpad theory. Neat, right angle thinking. I've seen a laptop reposition the cursor when weight was placed on the lower right corner so yes, touch pad related problems could be root cause.