Re: Keyboard behaving weird on my Sattelite A300 notebook

Dear all,
I have a Sattelite A300 notebook.
In the last days, I have had some problems with some keys on the keyboard. At first the "l" did not type well, and today I had troubles making the "m" work, and now it seems like the Ctrl key does not respond anymore.
It seems to me that it is a software problem.
What can I do about it?
Thanks!
Heleen

Hi,
I am also having a problem with my keyboard on my A300...
It seems that the space key gets stuck down, and I cannot stop it. It will just keep "spacing".
This happens when using a web browser, also when in Microsoft Outlook 2007.
I find the Tab key also gets stuck down (as I have turned away from my work in MYOB Premier V12 only to find the computer rapidly "scrolling" or "tabbing" through each field).
Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?
I thought maybe the key was actually physically "stuck down" but I have tried to lift it to normal key height but it's already the right height....
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! :)

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