Odd Keyboard Error (Sorry if this is the wrong place.)

[Tentacles]

  I was wondering knows how to correct this error I got? For some reason, when I press  e on the regular keyboard, it ends up being e3. Example

   This is an e3xmaple3 of the3 kind of thing I'm talking abou7t w2ith the3 re3gu7lar keyboard.

   Translation

   This is an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about with the regular keyboard.

   e3
   q1
   w2
   u7
   
   It doesn't to do it for the other letters. I tried pressing fn + scroll. It didnt seem to do anything.

[Leon]

My first thought was: a wrong keyboard setting. For a laptop or something. But then again, the numerics would be in the wrong place. Then I thought a ALT- or SHIFT problem but that would still not relate to the letter-keys.

All I can think of is two other things:

1: Something got stuck under or between the keys which causes the double strokes. You can probably lift the keys from the board and see if there's something in your keyboard. (Never hurts to clean it once in a while.. ;-)
2: There's a problem with the wiring of the keys. Inside is a thin sheet that has the wiring in it. When the sheet folds for whatever reason the wiring might make false contact and result in unpredictable behavior. Less likely to happen but still..

So, did you open the keyboard before or did you spill anything?

[Tentacles]

     Edit: I didnt correctly answer the question, sorry. No I did not open the key board at the time.

[Calin Leafshade]

some keyboards map the num pad to wierd keys.. is your numlock on?

[Tentacles]

     I'm not sure, I can't seem to figure it out.

[Jim Reed]

Flip your keyboard and bang it a bit on the underside.

[Snarky]

Try switching NumLock off.

[Radiant]

Sounds like a hardware problem. Try getting a new keyboard, it's not like they're expensive or anything.

[Questionable]

The solution is simple. Stop hitting the 3 button everytime you type the letter "e."

If that doesn't work, buy a new computer.






P.S. Are you drivers up to date? Is this a Dsktop/Laptop/Mac?

[Tentacles]

    Its a Gateway Laptop. Not sure about the drivers.

[InCreator]

shorted circuits. Looks like several keys respond to two connections.

Are you sure you didn't spill any liquids over keyboard, leave it near damp place etc?
Also, is your keyboard clean? Maybe there's some bread crumbs or whatever under E-key so pressing it presses crumbs which presses on both connections on E and 3

Also, try external keyboard.

[Gilbert]

Since the duplicated key is the number directly above each particular letter it's possible that it's a hardware fault as suggested by people. As it's possible that your laptop keyboard is a membrane keyboard or chiclet keyboard (or something similar, as opposed to more "high-end" ones in which each key has its own micro-switch), it's possible that some of the adjacent keys become "sticked" together. If this is the case I think your best solution is to return the laptop for repairing.

Check also the settings of "Keyboard" and "Regional and Language Options" in Control Panel (and also the BIOS settings, if applicable), but as it seems rare to have software making some keys produce two characters this may not fix your problems anyway (but worth checking out first).

[Khris]

It is extremely unlikely that this is a software issue. The mentioned keys don't have any relation to each other except their position on the keyboard.
Most laptops allow relatively easy access to the keyboard; check the manual on how to replace it, pull it out and clean it.

[Tentacles]

    Luckily I found an easy solution. Its still impractical though. So it would be better, to just take it in for repairs.