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[amdx]

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
Any idea why this would happen.
Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

Mikek

 

[Rick C]

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:34:53 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
Any idea why this would happen.
Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

Mikek

Should we assume you have rebooted?

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
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[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 11:34 AM, amdx wrote:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

 Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
 Any idea why this would happen.
 Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                          Mikek

In response Rick, I can no longer see your post.
You would think I might try the obvious. Nope!
It had been weeks since I rebooted the computer,
so I did,
It didn't change anything.

Mikek

 

[Martin Brown]

On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

 Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
 Any idea why this would happen.
 Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                          Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB
socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain
devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One
particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work
with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry
corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other
places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also
misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:

On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB
socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain
devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One
particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work
with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry
corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other
places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also
misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.

I haven't tried that but I have second item, my printer that has the
best working drivers, even though not the correct ones, that needs a
power down cycle on occasion. It also does not babdump as it did.
Mikek

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:

On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB
socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain
devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One
particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work
with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry
corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other
places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also
misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.

This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the computer
desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to behind
the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is just comforting
to hear badump when you plug it in.
Mikek

 

[Rick C]

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 3:41:14 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB
socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain
devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One
particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work
with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry
corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other
places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also
misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.


This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the computer
desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to behind
the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is just comforting
to hear badump when you plug it in.
Mikek

Time for a new keyboard? Update drivers? Check your windows sound associations. There is a single interface for all sounds. Maybe that got messed up? Does the sound work for other devices?

--

Rick C.

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[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 4:04 PM, Rick C wrote:

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 3:41:14 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:
On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB
socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain
devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One
particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work
with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry
corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other
places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also
misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.


This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the computer
desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to behind
the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is just comforting
to hear badump when you plug it in.
Mikek

Time for a new keyboard?

I don't think it is the keyboard causing the problem.
Update drivers?
The printer drivers are the best I can get. HP Laser jet 3055 it took
hours of searching years ago to find software that made the printer work
with windows 7.

Check your windows sound associations.

There is a single interface for all sounds.

Maybe that got messed up?

Does the sound work for other devices?
Yes it works on other devices.

 

[Dave Platt]

In article <qj4cb7$149$1@dont-email.me>, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

I haven't tried that but I have second item, my printer that has the
best working drivers, even though not the correct ones, that needs a
power down cycle on occasion. It also does not babdump as it did.

This sorta sounds as if something has changed your software "audio
volume control" settings. If I recall correctly, the hardware and/or
software mixers have a specific volume-slider-and-mute for "system
sounds" (as opposed to audio being output by a browser, a music player
app, the CD drive, etc.).

You may find that the system-sounds volume slider is down at 0, or
that this sound source is completely muted. Or, possibly, that the
mixer master-output is turned down or muted (the latter is something
that one can do by accident by hitting a particular function-key
combination on the keyboard, IIRC).

 

[Winfield Hill]

Rick C wrote...

Time for a new keyboard? ...

Time for a new computer. OK, Mikek,
now you have my blessing, go for it!


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote in news:qj4cgm$29o$1@dont-email.me:

On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one
letter keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug
the
keyboard.tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into
another USB socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to
accept certain devices reliably although usually for me it is all
of nothing. One particular USB socket on my previous machine
refuses point blank to work with one particular mouse. I am
fairly sure there is a registry entry corrupted for it somewhere
but unless and until I run out of other places to plug it in I
will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard
also misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.


This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the
computer
desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to
behind the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is
just comforting to hear badump when you plug it in.
Mikek

It is not 'baddump'. It is simply an event indicator. Not
decidedly bad or good.

 

amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote in news:qj41j8$433$1@dont-email.me:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttt Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
Any idea why this would happen.
Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

Mikek

Moisture over time in the kybd has caused a false press of a
'random' key by presenting a voltage across and into a path it was
not intended.

OR the USB connector itself is intermittent or oxidized or wiped
enough that it has a loss of connection or a noisy connection
resulting in random bit spray key select 'words' to get presented to
the USB interface circuit and then passed on to the PC.

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 5:05 PM, Winfield Hill wrote:

Rick C wrote...

Time for a new keyboard? ...

Time for a new computer. OK, Mikek,
now you have my blessing, go for it!

My computer guru is not ready yet.
He picked parts for a 4 computers (all the same) right at 8 years ago.
We all put them together and they are all still working.
I'm waiting for him to do it again.
The keyboard thing is rare, just a pain to climb under the desk and
unplug dis/re connect.
The printer is just old, and drivers for Win 7 were not made, someone
found work around drivers.
Other than that it works fine, surfs just fine, does everything I need,
Why do I need a new one, so it would be faster, it's fast enough. I have
a friend, his life is either overclocking or reinstalling a new modified
version of Windows, over and over and over again.
"I don't want to fix my computer I want to use my computer"

Besides the markets down, I want it to rebound before I remove $600 or
$800.

Ya'all need to buy while the price is low, invest people, invest.
That brings up my neighbor, pulled his money out on 9/11. never got
back in. In cash all those years. If he considered the fees on his
account and inflation he's probably down 45% in purchasing power.

Mikek

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 5:56 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote in news:qj41j8$433$1@dont-email.me:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter
keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttt Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
Any idea why this would happen.
Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

Mikek


Moisture over time in the kybd has caused a false press of a
'random' key by presenting a voltage across and into a path it was
not intended.

It's possible, I'm doubtful, it's just a rare event, why would it stop
just because I uplugged it. Why not the same key.

OR the USB connector itself is intermittent or oxidized or wiped
enough that it has a loss of connection or a noisy connection
resulting in random bit spray key select 'words' to get presented to
the USB interface circuit and then passed on to the PC.

I don't know.

On to a new project, bought an HP400E in as is condition, it has
paint flaking off the meter faceplate. I hope that is the only problem,
but I had to clear that up before I can check operation, the needle
would not go past the curled paint on the meter face. Removed what I
could without affecting lines and numbers and put on a few very light
coats of Krylon over it.
After I verify operation I may be back asking how to make a meter
faceplate.
Mikek

 

[mpm]

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:34:53 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the...

Are you plugged direct to the PC, or through a hub? (port extender, etc..)
The reason I ask is that I had a similar problem and it fixed itself when I went direct to the PC.

As for the constant badump-badump noise, my Win-7 PC does that with hard drives. Rarely, I'll get a blue-screen fault -- so I suspect some of the capacitors on the motherboard might be drying out by now and causing unacceptable power distrubances on the various peripheral interfaces, including USB.

I should have updated this machine loooooong ago, but I hated the blocky childish interface of Windows 8, and Win-10 isn't any better. I could go to Linux, but I have too much software that would have trouble migrating. (In short, I'm screwed.)

One option is you could drive yourself bat-shit crazy trying to figure out all the cryptic information that I'm sure Microsoft stuffed away neatly into the Event Log or some such. After a few hours of that, you would no longer care.

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 5:59 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote in news:qj4cgm$29o$1@dont-email.me:

On 8/15/2019 12:50 PM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/08/2019 17:34, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one
letter keeps going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug
the
keyboard.tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

  Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
  Any idea why this would happen.
  Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                           Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into
another USB socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to
accept certain devices reliably although usually for me it is all
of nothing. One particular USB socket on my previous machine
refuses point blank to work with one particular mouse. I am
fairly sure there is a registry entry corrupted for it somewhere
but unless and until I run out of other places to plug it in I
will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard
also misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.


This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the
computer
desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to
behind the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is
just comforting to hear badump when you plug it in.
Mikek


It is not 'baddump'. It is simply an event indicator. Not
decidedly bad or good.

I didn't write baddump, I wrote badump, but it's more like ba-dump
One is rise ondump and the other is goes low on dump, but it's been so
long, I don't remember which is which.

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 8:00 PM, mpm wrote:

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:34:53 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:
Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the...

Are you plugged direct to the PC, or through a hub? (port extender, etc..)
The reason I ask is that I had a similar problem and it fixed itself when I went direct to the PC.

As for the constant badump-badump noise, my Win-7 PC does that with hard drives. Rarely, I'll get a blue-screen fault -- so I suspect some of the capacitors on the motherboard might be drying out by now and causing unacceptable power distrubances on the various peripheral interfaces, including USB.

I should have updated this machine loooooong ago, but I hated the blocky childish interface of Windows 8, and Win-10 isn't any better. I could go to Linux, but I have too much software that would have trouble migrating. (In short, I'm screwed.)

One option is you could drive yourself bat-shit crazy trying to figure out all the cryptic information that I'm sure Microsoft stuffed away neatly into the Event Log or some such. After a few hours of that, you would no longer care.

Keyboard direct to computer.
From a previous poster, I found systems sounds was turned down to
zero. My Badump is back.
Mikek

 

[Robert Baer]

amdx wrote:

Every once in a while I need to disconnect my keyboard, one letter keeps
going and going and I can't stop it unless I unplug the
keyboard.ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Not necessarily T, can be any letter.

 Recently the badump sound that occurs at USB disconnect has
disappeared and the badump' at reconnect is gone.
 Any idea why this would happen.
 Windows 7.
8 yr old gigabyte mother board

                          Mikek

Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices Properties: Sounds tab.
Select what program even you want a sound, highlight event name,
select sound, click OK.
For sanity, give the Sound scheme a name and save it.

 

[amdx]

On 8/15/2019 4:17 PM, Dave Platt wrote:

In article <qj4cb7$149$1@dont-email.me>, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

I haven't tried that but I have second item, my printer that has the
best working drivers, even though not the correct ones, that needs a
power down cycle on occasion. It also does not babdump as it did.

This sorta sounds as if something has changed your software "audio
volume control" settings. If I recall correctly, the hardware and/or
software mixers have a specific volume-slider-and-mute for "system
sounds" (as opposed to audio being output by a browser, a music player
app, the CD drive, etc.).

You may find that the system-sounds volume slider is down at 0, or
that this sound source is completely muted. Or, possibly, that the
mixer master-output is turned down or muted (the latter is something
that one can do by accident by hitting a particular function-key
combination on the keyboard, IIRC).

BINGO!! Systems sounds was turned down.
Thank you very much.
Mikek

And for Win, I meant to say thank you for your Blessing.
Looks like I can get a couple more years on this computer.
Or more!

 

[Rick C]

On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 11:18:55 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

On 8/15/2019 4:17 PM, Dave Platt wrote:
In article <qj4cb7$149$1@dont-email.me>, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

I haven't tried that but I have second item, my printer that has the
best working drivers, even though not the correct ones, that needs a
power down cycle on occasion. It also does not babdump as it did.

This sorta sounds as if something has changed your software "audio
volume control" settings. If I recall correctly, the hardware and/or
software mixers have a specific volume-slider-and-mute for "system
sounds" (as opposed to audio being output by a browser, a music player
app, the CD drive, etc.).

You may find that the system-sounds volume slider is down at 0, or
that this sound source is completely muted. Or, possibly, that the
mixer master-output is turned down or muted (the latter is something
that one can do by accident by hitting a particular function-key
combination on the keyboard, IIRC).




BINGO!! Systems sounds was turned down.
Thank you very much.
Mikek

And for Win, I meant to say thank you for your Blessing.
Looks like I can get a couple more years on this computer.
Or more!

You said other devices made the sound! That volume control not only controls all devices, but every windows sound your system makes.

--

Rick C.

+- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209