All keyboards screwing up

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A few months ago once in awhile my blackwidow keyboard would just screw up, pressing esc would open start menu going into a game I wouldn't be able to do anything keyboard would just lock and start spamming buttons. When I would go on a browser it seemed like someone is holding ctrl on the keyboard while spamming a bunch of buttons like I would press t but a new tab would open as if I was pressing Ctrl + T. To fix this I would just unplug my keyboard and leave it unplugged for a few hours then it would start working again. If I plug it into another computer while its screwing up it would still be screwed up on that computer. This seemed to happen atleast 2-3 times a week until it stopped for about a month.

Now it came back I tried buying a new blackwidow samething happened I then got a different keyboard CMSTORM had it for a few days and just now when I was playing CS:GO my character would just auto walk everywhere I go into my browser and my W key is just spamming like crazy, it stopped but then my W key wouldn't work at all, which just reminded me that this also happened on my other keyboards but sometimes it would just be a bunch of other keys that wouldn't work.

I bought a new hard drive did a fresh install of windows but it still happens so I'm guessing its a motherboard problem I have tried all the USBs but it happens on all of them. I just want to make sure I know what the problem is before buying anything else like a new motherboard all my USB Peripherals are working fine.

TL😀R: Keyboards keep bugging out on computer, is it most likely as motherboard problem?
 
whenever i've encountered the problem it has had to do with malware, stickykeys (the windows feature not "sticky" keys), actual gunk under the keys causing them to stick, a bad keyboard and bad drivers.

you said you put a new hard drive in, with a fresh install of windows. did you hook up a known working keyboard (not the razer) and use the windows generic drivers to do a test? in this circumstance you would be able to eliminate bad drivers, malware and stickykeys (the feature). if in this state you still ended up with issues in multiple programs, while having only one program open at a time (not just opening up a browser window while having cs/go minimized) then i agree it might be something else.

try to eliminate as many variables as possible before making a decision. doing a google search on your issue might turn up a few results as well.
 
When my keyboard malfunctions it starts working again after leaving it unplugged for a few hours so when it started working again I went on the new hard drive it was working fine for about a day and it happened again.