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...that e-mail came to me from Tuning Spork. Either he's having keyboard problems or is just trying to get my phone number. Can someone help him???
With the keyboard thing, I mean. Not with my phone number.
(If you need a translation, let me know.)
***Update: I talked to him, and he said that he was in the middle of updating a post when he got an error that he was low on memory. He tried to delete some files, and after that is when the keyboard wigged out on him.
Hee hee! 
Reboot.
If that fails, time to buy a new cey6o@r'.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2003 12:59 AMWell, maybe re-install keyboard drivers. Is it a special keyboard (natural, usb, wireless, extra control keys, etc) or just a standard 101/104-key? If he deleted the wrong files, it might have eaten a dll. Also, the location settings, which control the keyboard layout, might have gotten mixed up so it thinks he's typing on a korean keyboard or something.
Posted by: Chris C. at September 14, 2003 05:37 PMStop eating and drinking at your desk. That's probably the long-term solution.
I throw away a *lot* of keyboards at work for that very reason.
Posted by: Victor at September 15, 2003 02:04 AMChri$,_it'$_@_regu1@r_o1'_keyboard_(copy/p@$t_ru1e$).
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Posted by: Tu^i^g_$por< at September 15, 2003 04:39 AMErm, is it bad that I had almost no trouble reading that? $c@^&i$c was the only on that gave me trouble and then only because I didn't think a scandisk was necessary.
So, the possibilites
a) you spilled something in your keyboard...go get a new one
a1) as an alternative check, plug a spare keyboard in and see if it works.
b) something ate your keyboard drivers, go to control panel->system->hardware tab->device manager->keyboards->MS 101/104-key (I think)-> properties->reinstall driver (or somethign along those lines, what OS?)
c) something ate your regional settings, go to control panel->regional options and check to make sure everything is correct (I assume everything should be in english, etc.)
d) something gave your system a frontal lobotomy. Backup, reformat, reinstall.