Satellite L300D-135 - Certain keys stop working after several minutes

Satellite L300D-135 (PSLC8E-02P013EN) model laptop, on cold boot the keyboard is fine. As things warm up the R and Y keys stop responding as do the 7890 keys. Might be heat related.
The keyboard has been replaced but both old and new do the same thing, so it's more like a controller problem. Have flashed BIOS to latest as saw mention of keyboard issues in one of the BIOS releases. End user has been tolerating this for some months but dyslexic child now needs to use laptop and cannot cope with dead keys.
Any ideas? Laptop is 2 weeks out of warranty and end user just asked me to take a look, problem has been around during warranty period.
Phil

Hi Phil
Can you notice the same issue if you connect an external keyboard or does this happen only with an internal one?
I cant imagine that this has something to do with the heat but if you want you can clean your notebook using compressed air spray. This could blow out the dust from the cooling ventilators.
If not you have to replace the whole keyboard. Normally its not so expensive so dont worry about this. You can also ask your ASP if they can repair it as gesture of goodwill.

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