So every now and then when I'm playing a game one or more of the aswd keys will seem to stick. Without even pressing one of those keys I will find my character running unstoppably against a wall. Today it gotten even worse as the ctrl key has started acting up as well. Normally I can fix the problem by either unplugging my keyboard and then plugging it back in, or by pausing the game for a few seconds. Today however, I found that suddenly only the shift key would respond. Esc wouldn't work, and the system thought that the ctrl, a, and w, keys were being pressed. Even after I unplugged the keyboard and left it unplugged Red Faction still thought that I was pressing those keys. Also, this keyboard has a few media buttons on one corner for skipping tracks and such, and every now and then one of those will become stuck at random (without even being pressed), which is a pain in the ass when I'm listening to music because it will skip each track after a few seconds of playing it.
So do I just have a defective keyboard? Or is something else to blame?
So do I just have a defective keyboard? Or is something else to blame?