PokeNirvash Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Throughout my college career, I have been faced with a multitude of various problems that hindered the functionality of my laptop. First my screen was unable to turn on, prompting me to replace the motherboard. After that, the charge was at 0% and it wouldn't increase even when plugged in, so I got the battery replaced. The charge was non-zero but it still wouldn't increase, so I had to get the motherboard replaced again. Then for a year and a half, things were good. Then came a broken screen hinge forcing me to replace the entire screen, then the hard drive overheating and forcing that to be replaced. Ever since my 4-year warranty expired, the only problem I've had was some of my keyboard buttons no longer working, a problem easily fixed with a USB keyboard. But now, I've come across my biggest and bizarrest problem yet. Periodically, my laptop touchpad quits working. Sometimes it quits multiple times in a span of minutes, other times it takes hours before it pops up again. The fact of the matter is, it stops suddenly. And when it does, I can't press the shift key on my USB keyboard without doing the Ctrl+V function, something that only happens with the Insert key is stuck. (I also find myself unable to view multiple windows at once whenever I press a taskbar icon that has two or more windows active, but that's neither here nor there.) The only temporary fixes I have for this problem at the moment are pressing the Shift key on the laptop keyboard and pressing the Caps Lock key on my USB keyboard, but who knows how long that'll last? In short, this is a weird, weird problem with no plausible explanation outside of my keyboard getting old and shorting out periodically. I'm gonna try replacing the keyboard sometime later this month, but if that doesn't work, I might just have no other choice than to buy a new laptop altogether. But even if it doesn't come to that, there's no denying that this is the strangest computer problem I've ever faced in my entire life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 You should try posting in the PC support thread: https://unevenedge.com/topic/155-pc-support-and-help/ We got some smart folks who might help narrow down what's wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 I'll go do that, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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