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Laptop's keyboard randomly stops working (from time to time)
Hey all!
I am having a very annoying problem, and lately it's happening more and more (coincidence?)
So basically, my laptop's keyboard (so not an external USB keyboard), just stops working on random moments.
I can be in the middle of a meeting, working for school projects, writing essays,... and suddenly, my keyboard stops working for no apparent reason.
When browsing 'Device Manager' and looking at my Keyboard's driver there seems to be no problem at all.
'This device is working correctly'. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the driver but that didn't change anything.
I even reformatted my whole computer (for another reason), and reinstalled all my drivers from fresh, but still, the problem occurs.
It says I have a "Standard PS/2 Keyboard"
Hardware ID: ACPI\DLLK062C
My computer is a DELL Latitude E5550.
Interesting detail: I get my driver back to work by rebooting my computer. This works 99% of the time. If it doesn't, I just keep on rebooting until it gives a sign of life/
Another way is by putting it to sleep. This has a success rate of about 60%. Mostly this works, if it doesn't I keep putting it back to sleep until it works again.
However, mostly the problem starts occuring again just a few seconds later, which makes me forced to do a whole restart of my system until it works again for a few hours.
This is getting really on my nerves, certainly since I don't have any control over it. It just happens, and I can't figure out why.
Anyone know what I can do or what might be the cause?
Cheers!