Laptop keyboard intermittently stops working

#Laptop keyboard intermittently stops working drivers#
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ThinkPad: 11e (Windows), 13, E and Edge series Laptops.ThinkPad: S Series, ThinkPad Yoga and Twist Laptops.ThinkPad: X Series Tablet and Helix Laptops.ThinkPad: P and W Series Mobile Workstations.ThinkPad: T400 / T500 and newer T series Laptops.

#Laptop keyboard intermittently stops working drivers#

Recently Released Critical Drivers - Read Only.Recently Released Service Tips - Read Only.Can this be done with the Yoga 710 (14IKB)? I don't want to just go for it and break something, lol. And I gently slid a piece of paper under the keys to see if there was anything big that I could just shimmy out (there wasn't).ДЄlso: on some of the older PCs I've had, you could pop out individual keys, clean under them, and pop them back on. Already did all the basic stuff like checking for updates and drivers and resetting the BIOS. I'm broke as heck right now so I haven't bought a can of air yet, but that's my next thing. She also doesn't go outside, except to chill on the porch (we live on the second floor, it's kind of a small balcony almost).

But I've had cats all my life, and most of them have sat on at least one laptop, but never caused this problem. The only thing I can think of is that my cat has been walking on my laptop more frequently in the last few weeks. But I haven't had one of those since before this all started, so it doesn't explain the tab and left alt keys. At first I thought maybe there were a couple of food particles under the G and H, like a seed or two from an everything bagel. I don't put liquids near my laptop - ever - because I actually did ruin one and had to get really creative, really quickly, to solve the problems that created. We all make mistakes from time to time, but these mistakes are new and extremely frequent (and extremely irritating). I mean that I frequently mistype certain words that were never a problem for me before. Now, when they do work, it's slower than the other keys. Then I noticed the same thing with several others, including the tab key and the left alt. They would stop working, seemingly at random, and I could fix it momentarily by holding them down for a moment, but it didn't last long. Several days ago, I noticed that the G and H keys were not functioning quite right. I'm writing this because I'm pretty perplexed about what's going on here, and I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.