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Posted by Phil Sherman on February 21, 2007, 10:17 am
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Try obtaining a bootable Linux CD and start your system using it. Open a
command window and play around with the Ctrl-... keys to see if you can
replicate the problem. If you can, then it's definitely a hardware problem.
Another thing to try is to install a key logger so you can, after a
failure, look at what the keyboard was generating when you pressed keys.
Phil Sherman
nuebeamer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I make use of the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+c, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+r,
> Ctrl+F5, etc. From the time I have been using a new Dell E1505
> Inspirion laptop it has been losing power intermittently when the left
> hand side Ctrl Key has been pressed along with any other combination.
> There are no events written to the event log and when the laptop is
> powered back on, it behaves as if nothing has gone wrong. So far the
> laptop has lost power like 8 - 10 times in a month.
>
> What could be the problem here? This happens intermittently and only
> to me, cos I am the only one in the family that uses the Ctrl key
> based shortcuts.
>
> Dell support is a piece of crap and claim that their hardware is fine
> and are blaming it on windows, unfortunately, its now beyond the 21
> day replacement period and I am running out of patience on this
> problem with dell support.
>
> I appreciate your time in reading this post and your help if you can
> point me to what would cause a laptop to lose power when a ctrl key is
> pressed.
>
> :angry: :retard:
>
> Regards
> Nanda
>
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