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Grex Hardware Item 132: Double strike
Entered by wh on Wed Jun 11 15:46:06 UTC 1997:

I have a problem with double strikes from my keyboard. I notice
it more when I'm in Lynx and hit an arrow. My 486 sometimes takes
it as two to four hits. This problem began when I had a used 486
board put in that I bought from a friend. I had noticed it when
it was in her PC also but thought it was keyboard-related.

Is there anything I can do to so it won't be so sensitive to
a single keyboard strike? I'm not holding the arrow down any 
longer than I do when  I type letters. It also only seems to
happen in DOS.

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by scott on Wed Jun 11 16:05:54 1997:

Check your CMOS "typmatic" or "keyboard repeat" setting, if you have one.

#2 of 3 by davel on Fri Jun 13 21:15:20 1997:

If you don't have a setting in CMOS that you can get to, I think I have a
program somewhere I can let you have.  (I wrote it a long time ago partly
for practice, partly because one program I ran occasionally reset it to
something I didn't like & left it reset.)  Email me if you need it, but
I'd say check your setup first.

#3 of 3 by wh on Mon Jun 23 03:42:38 1997:

Thanks a bunch! Went into CMOS and found a typematic setting to 
adjust. That seemed to fix the problem and save me a lot of time
at unwanted links in Lynx.

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