Keyboard Locking Up!

[chaosmuse]

Occasionally during gameplay, I'm holding a key down (to walk forward, for instance), and suddenly my keyboard beeps a few times, then my character gets stuck doing whatever action was occurring when it happened. Most often, I get stuck walking forward. Sometimes, though, a key combination will be happening when it strikes, so for example, most recently, my map kept toggling in and out and i kept turning left. All keys are locked; I can't alt+f4, can't type, can't even toggle windows.

Once I manage to close out EQ, the issue continues, therefore I'm pretty sure it's independent of EQ. However, I've not been able to recreate the same events outside of EQ, so I'm hesitant to be sure of that. I'm running Windows XP Home SP2, but I've seen other machines run the same thing without this problem.

I've checked keyboard settings and turned off any autokey combinations on my machine, as far as I can tell anyway. Has anyone had this problem before? Any clue what settings I should be checking that I've possibly overlooked? Any help at all is appreciated... it's gotten really hard to do anything in game without getting frustrated about this.

Thanks tons!

- chaosmuse

 

[Kyeld]

It might be your keyboard, I don't see a reason as to why SoD would be causing the beeping.

Sometimes though the keyboard becomes unresponsive while playing SoD for long periods of time, but control of the keyboard outside SoD is fine.

Try installing both SoD and the keyboard on another computer if possible and checking whether the problem occurs.

 

[Kelval]

Have you tried sitting?
I often have keyboard lockups ( just can't type anything) and I have a sit hotkey that I use with the mouse for those moments. Curiously, sitting and sitting off unlocks the thing. Go figure...