I was round a friends earlier today and was helping him do a restore of an old backup I made for him, as he put a password on his PC, and when he rebooted it said the password was invalid.
Obviously I called him a **** for not typing it right or having caps lock on but, we ended up restoring from the backup and while I was there I got him to setup the password again to make sure all was fine, and this time as an extra precaution make one of those password recovery files on a USB Stick.
Well to my surprise the same happened again, both passwords matched when setting it up but when he logged in it kept saving invalid password.
In went the USB recover stick and it prompted for new password and description.....
To my amazement when he typed the prompt for the new password different leters came out to the keys he was pressing !!
i.e. he pressed "t" and he got a "6" pressed "p" and got "-", but it was not all key just ceratin ones.
I said his keyboard must have be borked (was a Keysonic wireless one with touchpad).
We got the machine in to windows again and to my amazement again all the keys were producing the correct characters again.
After another 90 minutes of messing about I came to the conclusion for some reason his keyboard seems to always produce different character on the password screen for certain keys but is fine beyond the password screen.
Anyone came across this before ?
I didn't have another keyboard to try, but its just bizarre !!!
Diddy
Obviously I called him a **** for not typing it right or having caps lock on but, we ended up restoring from the backup and while I was there I got him to setup the password again to make sure all was fine, and this time as an extra precaution make one of those password recovery files on a USB Stick.
Well to my surprise the same happened again, both passwords matched when setting it up but when he logged in it kept saving invalid password.
In went the USB recover stick and it prompted for new password and description.....
To my amazement when he typed the prompt for the new password different leters came out to the keys he was pressing !!
i.e. he pressed "t" and he got a "6" pressed "p" and got "-", but it was not all key just ceratin ones.
I said his keyboard must have be borked (was a Keysonic wireless one with touchpad).
We got the machine in to windows again and to my amazement again all the keys were producing the correct characters again.
After another 90 minutes of messing about I came to the conclusion for some reason his keyboard seems to always produce different character on the password screen for certain keys but is fine beyond the password screen.
Anyone came across this before ?
I didn't have another keyboard to try, but its just bizarre !!!
Diddy
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