Weird PC problem for your delectation

[burger1]

Maybe clear your cmos with the jumper on the mainboard. Read the manual to see if there's any tricks to it since I don't remember.

Like another poster said if your settings aren't being saved maybe your mainboard battery is gone. They are pretty universal so if you have an old mainboard you could pop out the battery and try it.


Your mainboard may also have more than one bios so you can switch to the second one.

[RegisterMe]

I've gone down the remove the CMOS battery route already so I think that's ruled out.

They keyboard I have is pretty long in the tooth now (and I am increasingly annoyed by Logitech's awful software and support) that I think replacing it is the right route to go down for now.

[red assassin]

The Corsair K70 - looks very "heavy". How is it to use? And what are both on about re O rings?

It's pretty solidly built - the frame is metal, and it weighs just over a kilo. You can get them with Cherry MX red or brown key switches - they're both light activation force; brown has a tactile click relatively (by mechanical keyboard standards) quietly on activation, while red is linear. I have red switches on mine, which are better for gaming on, but I have a mild preference for brown for typing.
(edit: apparently you can also get them with blue [properly clicky] or "speed" [like red but activate higher up the travel, so you don't have to press down as far before it activates] switches now...)

The keys hit the bottom of their travel fairly loudly if you hit them reasonably hard (on both the red and brown variants), which is quite noisy. felter and I are talking about adding rubber o-rings under the keycaps so when you press the key down, it hits the o-ring at the bottom of the travel, which is quieter. It's a little fiddly (you have to pop each key cap off and add the o-ring over the stem), but worth it if loud keyboards annoy you.

[Nanook]

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The SteelSeries - how is that fat short space bar to use?

I like it, and the 'fatness' of it helps when playing WASD games, at least for me.

[RegisterMe]

I'm left handed, I wonder would that make a difference.

[Chips]

Could just get a £5 keyboard to test your theory with I have an MS one I got just to plug into various Raspberry Pi's for initial setups where applicable. Perfectly good keyboard.

Mechanical ones are expensive, they require some force in comparison to a little office one - but I think I could dispatch large animals with a crack around the head, and still type up the email admitting my crime afterwards... However, they may not be for everyone. I wouldn't go back, but having said that, use normal keyboards at work. Find it much easier to type on my mechanical one but that may be my bias

However, I wouldn't spend north of £100 to test a theory.

[Redvers Ganderpoke]

I've seen dodgy RAM do that sort of thing before.

[pjknibbs]

Could just get a £5 keyboard to test your theory with

Definitely this. You don't want to spend loads on a new keyboard only to find it doesn't actually fix the problem, and USB keyboards are cheap.

[RegisterMe]

Agreed. And it will provide me with a "spare" should I end up deciding to get a "proper" one.

[RegisterMe]

The cheap as chips keyboard arrived on Friday and I've not had a single problem since, so that's good news. Now I just need to figure out which "proper" keyboard to buy .

[birdtable]

Nice to get a cheap solution to a frustrating problem ,, as for a "proper" keyboard like beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder.
Would stick with the cheap one and remedy what faults you find with the "proper" one ....