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Originally Posted by Butchb
Please update after replacing your keyboard!!
I'm having the same problem with Presario 2104US laptop.
Removed keyboard and touchpad and plugged in a USB mouse and keyboard.
Tried a clean install of XP after running Killdisk. But as soon as it is time to type a name or anything in starts the 7777777777.
I can hold down a differant key, for example, z and I get 7z7z7z7z7z.
So with no keyboard just mouse and I click the cursor in a box and away go the 777777.
Please let me know if a new keyboard helps. Or if others may have ideas please post.
Thanks,
Butch
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Hi Butch, didn't see your post for some reason.
It is weird that you are having trouble with the 7 key specifically.
I'm pretty certain that mine was caused by a hardware issue in the keyboard, because it stopped when I disconnected the laptop keyboard by unplugging the ribbon cable from the rest of the machine. When you say you 'removed the keyboard' does this mean physically unplugged? I tried uninstalling the keyboard driver but it always seemed to automatically reinstall upon restart. Which did you mean?
Replacing the keyboard was reasonably easy.
Good luck with it.