Keyboard has like "intervals" between keys HP PROBOOK 4530s

LAPTOP: HP PROBOOK 4530s
You know how you hold down the "down arrow" key to scroll down web pages? if i held it down, all it does is scrolls once. And when i type "qwertyuiop" at normal speed, this is the result "qwtip". Weird cause the missing keys work. Theres just something like intervals between keys pressed in a second i guess? has this happened to you guys?
This is the 3rd time it happened. Tried to talk with HP customer service, they didnt even know what to do. Only had the laptop for a couple of months.

 Just so you know, I experienced the same thing for the first time tonight. On rebooting it worked fine, but I did notice the fan was kicking into high gear just before the keyboard started flaking out.  My probook is about two weeks old, I applied the most recent bios update to it the day I set it up.  Did anyone ever get a satisfactory resolution for this, or is this one of those kind of things where new mainboards are quietly replaced on a per complaint basis.
What I did notice as unusual when setting up this laptop is it hung up while it was unpacking software.  I had let it go for about an hour thinking maybe it had a lot of stuff to install, but 5 hours later it was still at the same spot.  Forcing it off by holding down the power button and starting it up again, everything set up normally.  I was worried I had a lemon right off the bat so I ran full diagnostics on the hard drive and ran a memory test without any faults found, so chalked it up to crappy software development.
I think it's eat related, even though this thing doesn't seem to be running that hot.  CPU-Z shows my CPU is hovering around 42-43 degrees.
I guess now I know why these things are now being sold at near rock bottom prices. 

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