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My keyboard has recently started resulting wrong keys when I try to press any keys on keyboard before booting. The problem came literally out of nowhere. I have no idea why It stopped working and I was able to access the BIOS just fine a week ago with the same keyboard. But now I can't access it, since the del key just results a random character.
It doesn't work in the boot manager either.
But after booting up Windows 7, the keyboard is working fine.
I've managed to find out some of the wrong keys it sends by smashing some random keys (miraculously got into a command line by smashing random keys when trying to install linux):
enter or 9 --> m
numlock --> e
7 --> a
7 + 8 --> i
What I've already tried:
Reinstalling windows and formating the drive
Reinstalling keyboard from the device manager
Resetting BIOS
Updating drivers
Checking if USB Legacy mode was enabled from BIOS (using MSI Click Bios), it was enabled.
None of those brought any results.
My hardware:
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G45
Processor: Intel i5-3570k
SSD: Kingston SSDNow v300 120gb
Keyboard: CM Storm QuickFire TK
Jerzo
Posted 2014-04-11T19:04:40.893
Reputation: 3
3Before troubleshooting everything besides the keyboard, you should of checked to make sure that it wasn't the keyboard it self that was going bad. Please check by placing a different, working keyboard. – 10100111001 – 2014-04-11T19:39:58.967
this is a great story, but what's your actual question? If it's about getting the keyboard to work right, first you have to determine if it's the keyboard itself that failing: Try a known-good keyboard, try that keyboard on another computer. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-04-11T19:48:51.507
I will be trying that tomorrow when I get hands on another one. But I can say that the keyboard does work with other computers fine. Though there still might be something wrong in my computer specific to this keyboard and I will find out tomorrow if that is true. (Even if there is, it still doesn't fix the problem) – Jerzo – 2014-04-11T19:58:09.020