Sounds like it's time for a new keyboard.

MD



"nelle" wrote:

> hi there,
> as in my post title, my "insert" key is permanently in "depressed" mode. No
> it's not having mood swings (!!), it just acts as if I'm always pressing it
> although I'm not. I know this because: 1) continuous beeps issue at start up
> like when you're pressing a key that you shouldn't be pressing, and 2)
> everytime I start Word the insert mode keeps flickering on and off rapidly,
> causing me to overwrite erratically when I intend to insert instead.
> Does anyone know if there's some combination of keys (some combi using Ctrl,
> Alt, Tab?) that locks other keys? I suspect I may have hit the combi cos
> those 3 function keys were in heavy use just before the problem started 3
> days ago. I've been trying random combis but none of them have solved the
> problem so far. (I'm running a Win XP).
>
> Thanks for reading and very grateful for any help