Dinosaur
01-30-2001, 10:09 PM
I am running Windows 98, Second Edition on an Intel Pentium II MMX (350Mhz, I think) with 128 Meg of RAM. The motherboard is an ASUS P2B AGP with a 100 Mgz bus.
I have been having trouble with "Loss of focus" when using the keyboard. It seems to happen in my Word Processor (Corel WordPerfect) and when on the Internet typing email or to a VB Forum.
It does not seem to be an application software problem since more than one type of software shows the symptoms. It might be an OS, BIOS, or keyboard problem.
When typing, the keyboard sometimes does not have any effect. There is a blinking vertical cursor at the point in a document at which I expect to type. It never occurs in the midst of continuous typing. It seems to occur after a copy and paste operation or some other process for which I deliberately interrupted my typing. If I click the with the left mouse button, focus is restored and I can type.
When I see the blinking vertical cursor, I expect to be able to type with the characters inserted at that point. Perhaps this is not always true??
For the last month or so I have been using a new keyboard, but do not think the problem started when the keyboard was first installed.
I went to the System hardware manager, deleted the keyboard, and restarted Windows. This did not solve the problem.
The problem can be lived with. It is merely annoying.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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Gouverneur
Eschew Obfuscation!
If one hundred million people believe a foolish idea, it is still a foolish idea.
I have been having trouble with "Loss of focus" when using the keyboard. It seems to happen in my Word Processor (Corel WordPerfect) and when on the Internet typing email or to a VB Forum.
It does not seem to be an application software problem since more than one type of software shows the symptoms. It might be an OS, BIOS, or keyboard problem.
When typing, the keyboard sometimes does not have any effect. There is a blinking vertical cursor at the point in a document at which I expect to type. It never occurs in the midst of continuous typing. It seems to occur after a copy and paste operation or some other process for which I deliberately interrupted my typing. If I click the with the left mouse button, focus is restored and I can type.
When I see the blinking vertical cursor, I expect to be able to type with the characters inserted at that point. Perhaps this is not always true??
For the last month or so I have been using a new keyboard, but do not think the problem started when the keyboard was first installed.
I went to the System hardware manager, deleted the keyboard, and restarted Windows. This did not solve the problem.
The problem can be lived with. It is merely annoying.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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Gouverneur
Eschew Obfuscation!
If one hundred million people believe a foolish idea, it is still a foolish idea.