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tomahhunt

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 8

Keyboard sticks repeating last key press

Since I bought a new PC I have been having an issue with keyboard input.

Quite regularly the keyboard appears to crash continually repeating the last keyboard press. Removing the USB port and plugging it back in restores normal order.

This does not happen in windows on the same machine. It did not happen using ARCH on my old PC but with the same keyboard. So I suspect something software related to do with the motherboard.

For reference they keyboard is a Microsoft Natural Ergonmic 4000 keyboard.

Motherboard/CPU is Intel Haswell based.
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87
Intel Core i5-4670

I was suprised to find no one else with this issue which might mean something but I don't know.

Any help much appreciated. This makes Arch on my new PC basically unusable.

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Keyboard sticks repeating last key press

Is the keyboard directly connected to the machine or, e.g. through a usb hub? Did you try switching to another usb port?