Keyboard problems

[Heggis]

Hello! I have a problem with my gen 1 G15.

 

Everynow and then the numlock freezes and my tab button stops working. First I thought it was my windows installation that was the problem so I re-installed it. Nope, problem persists. Then I thought it was play in the cable. Nope. It starts working now and again, and then it stops. 

 

Tried google to no avail so I've decided to try my luck here!

[Matsy]

Clean your keyboard.

[Heggis]

UPDATE: My esc button wont work either.

 

 

 

Clean your keyboard.

 

Did that, doesn't work. It's like those keys freeze at a certain point and when one freezes, all them stops working. 

[Matsy]

UPDATE: My esc button wont work either.

 

 

Did that, doesn't work. It's like those keys freeze at a certain point and when one freezes, all them stops working. 

 

As in...under the keys.

[Heggis]

As in...under the keys.

 

As in under the keys. On the other hand. If there is dirt under the Numlock, why would only the tab and esc-button stop responding and not any other?

[Matsy]

As in under the keys. On the other hand. If there is dirt under the Numlock, why would only the tab and esc-button stop responding and not any other?

 

Because dirt under-neigh the membrane could cause a signal to get cut off.

Take the keyboard apart totally and clean it thoroughly.

If that doesn't fix it, either there is something on your computer or the keyboard has reached the end of its life.

[DaftBehemoth]

This kind of sounds more like a simple case of a worn out keyboard to me. I would look under the keys to see if there's anything you might be able to clean off though. Have you tried a separate bank of USBs, such as your front ones instead of your back ones?

[juretrn]

Don't take it apart, especially if it's membrane. Chances are you'll just ruin it. 

[Heggis]

I'm opening up my keyboard as we speak to see if there is dirt there, and yeah I've tried that too

[Matsy]

Don't take it apart, especially if it's membrane. Chances are you'll just ruin it. 

 

You can only ruin it, if you force it apart and mishandle it.

[Heggis]

You can only ruin it, if you force it apart and mishandle it.

 

Well if it is as DaftBehemoth says, and it is just and old keyboard and about to die. I'm willing to go all in.

[Matsy]

Well if it is as DaftBehemoth says, and it is just and old keyboard and about to die. I'm willing to go all in.

 

 

Just open it with a screw driver, take the main parts apart and clean with q-tips or something.

Put it back together, see if its still not working, if it isn't its time to find a new keyboard

[UselessBread]

You can only ruin it, if you force it apart and mishandle it.

Well there is some keyboards where the domes are all separate. Putting one of those back together is a pain, but I would not expect the G15 to have separate domes, and instead have a sheet which they are all on.

[Heggis]

Well there is some keyboards where the domes are all separate. Putting one of those back together is a pain, but I would not expect the G15 to have separate domes, and instead have a sheet which they are all on.

Yeah it is kind of a pain to put together heh...

[Heggis]

Well, it didn't work... So back to square one!

[juretrn]

You can only ruin it, if you force it apart and mishandle it.

Well, if you're me, then don't. 

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I somehow managed to destroy one of those super-thin cables coming from contacts to the PCB. (it was a G11)

[Heggis]

It's been put together now and it works! Well except the original problem...

[LogicalDrm]

Reason why certain keys that are close to each other will stop working at once is that its membrane keyboard. In membrane kb's keys are arranged in clusters which have something like 4-9 keys in one cluster. If that cluster stops working, then nothing you can do about it. My X6 went RMA two times because cluster at jkl stopped working. Same problem like you, no responce and when they did it was many letter at once. Get new kb.

[Chevenitsu]

I am using a DasKeyboard Ultimate. I can not get into bios using either my rear I/O usb 2.0 or 3.0 ports. No matter how many times I hit the delete key on start up, it just ignores me and goes straight to Win 7 OS.