ok weirdest error ever

[dhjjessel]

I am here sitting on an hp pavilion 5000 ea laptop, and whenever i open a new application, the asterisk key gets stuck down; not physically, but the asterisk symbol just gets entered repeqtedly like this ********************* and doesnt stop unless i press shift. Then the button stops working at all, then after a few minutes the same problem starts happenning***************************************************************************************************************************************************************** anyone got a clue what to do?

 

[gillywibble]

Sounds like a hardware fault.

 

[bledd]

who owns the laptop?
has it ever been punched?

we had a mad woman in my old work place that used to wreck laptops, so i gave her a docking station with 10x usb keyboards

keyboard probably needs replacing (or a remove and reinsert might do it)

had a similar issue on my dell laptop, just bought a new (although it's US) keyboard for £12 from the bay