Precautionary Slowatus (or: Why, Computer, Why???)

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Sooo... Something amazing and annoying is happening with my keyboard at the moment. All of a suddaaen [sic]. See that? See, if I hit the "D" button for too long or too hard, it comes up with both d and a (daaddaaaaddaa <--for example). This is awesome

I'm thinking this may finally be the hardware failure to end all hardware failures with this computer (hell, it's five years old, at least, and has a busted hinge, a failing ethernet port, no USB capabilities, no CD or DVD capabilities, and a nicked screen, to say nothing of the numberous virus attacks I've endured).

Anyway, just a notice here that, if I vanish or lag or get slow with tags, it's because I'm fed up with this annoyance. Likewise, this whole thing may just mean that my computer is in its daeath [sic] throes andaa [sic] I may vanish until I can wrangle a new machine or a fix for this one. We shall see. I'm not gone, I'm just going "arrrrgh!!" for a bit. I'm still here! It's just taking me longer to type tags and so on.

tl;dr: Caru's computer wants its "Da Da" apparently >:| And if anyone has a fix for this, I'd love to hear it.

This goes for:
Cain (misterblackbird)
Maria (agoodchild)
Alice (othersideofwhat)

DAAAMN [sic] I AM ANNOYEDAA [sic].

Comments

[cold_dry_pieces]

Sucky problem, but A+++ for the hilarity it's spawned in comments o/

Err, I have to say the only time I had an issue like that I kind of. destroyed the computer through over-abuse of the keyboard @_@ so I can't necessarily offer any help. But, depending on the make of your machine can you pop the keys off and back on? :X Cleaning underneath them might resolve it, or at least lessen the severity of the issue. If you can't, you might want to give a go with a paintbrush and some canned air?

GOOOOOD LUCK <3

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

As far as issues go, I mean, at least this one is lulzy. It coulda be far worse. I mean, I just sounda a bit like Mario here, y/y?

Well, I've poppeda the keys off anda brusheda aundaaer there a bit--got quite a bit of cruda out, but it's still daoaing it. Canneda air will be the next step, methinks. Otherwise...it's hardaware failure daoom.

THANK YOU <3333