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Oh course with wireless keyboard, the #1 cause of this is "dead battery". We have to cover even the obvious.
If a wireless keyboard, see if you can get a wired keyboard and try it - something could go wrong with the wireless driver.

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by cavac (Prior) on Aug 17, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

    Nice, haven't thought of that. Good catch.

    Oh, and there's always radio interference, too. A lot of handheld using in restaurants here in Austria used to use the ISM band. (Worth of note: For a lot of small establishments, the owners live upstairs in the house, with the restaurant is on the ground floor). You used to immediately know when the owner had a new baby, because the cheap chinese baby monitors would completely overwhelm the ISM band.

    So, if it's a wireless keyboard, it's certainly a good idea to check if some new wireless gadget has been turned on (or an old one has started to malfunction).

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