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This is half-rant, half question. Maybe 4 months ago a key was pressed on my keyboard which rendered it borderline useless for days - multiple reboots, driver reinstalls, win-spacebar, troubleshooters (kbin.social)
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This is half-rant, half question. Maybe 4 months ago a key was pressed on my keyboard which rendered it borderline useless for days - multiple reboots, driver reinstalls, win-spacebar, troubleshooters, ad nauseum. At this point I don't remember if it was NumLock, ScrollLock, or Pause. Fast forward to 4 days ago and the keyboard fails in a similar manner: can't type L,O,A,M,Y or @. Google doesn't help. Manufacturer removed features I need, so can't easily buy my way out of the problem. I wake up this morning, and apparently the cause of my problems is that the cat had hit F10 ("Game Mode"). Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, would something like that persist through a reboot?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like that’s a function provided by the hardware, in this case your keyboard, so as long as you didn’t actually disconnect the keyboard for it to lose power, it would stay. At least now, if it happens again, you know where to look.

Also, gamer cat :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a similar issue to this. My keyboard had a firmware issue, and the only way to reset it was to completely unplug the keyboard. The USB port it was connected to had 'always on' so even if the PC was restarting or shutdown, there was still powered going to the keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would game mode disable the A key?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i can only imagine the firmware of the keyboard would internally change W,A,S,D to the arrow keys then? but only guessing...

Nonetheless, this gaming mode sounds extremely stupid lmao

and yes, as @[email protected] said - it persists through reboots because it's stored in the storage of the keyboard itself, not the PC.