Keyboard lags and keys "stick" (without touching them). How to fix this?

[evilx3mpire]

Hello ~

I've been having this issue with my keyboard for a couple months. I've gone through three keyboards thinking it was a malfunction, but its happened with all three. I've scoured microsoft forums for a solution, and I keep seeing solutions that include turning off sticky keys, but nothing else really helpful.

The keyboard lags and then the keys appear to "stick" even though they aren't physically sticking. And it happens intermittently. Of course as I'm typing this its not happening to show an example. Basically, sometimes it lags so bad it misses other typed keys, other times it just creates a stream of whatever key was pressed last. If I was typing "jerky", it might come out something like "jrkyyyyyyyyyyyy" . I'm convinced its less of a hardware issue and more of a PC issue, but i have no idea where to start to troubleshoot it.

Sticky keys are off, startup programs are all disabled. Nothing has worked so far. I don't know what to do about this. Google doesn't have any answers. The few questions I did find with the same problem were corrected quickly. None of those solutions worked for me.

Any suggestions would be great, thank you!

 

[Ralston18]

Other keyboards yes. Did you try other ports and connections: USB, wireless, etc..?

Are you using the native windows keyboard drivers?

Have you tried installing any drivers via the keyboard manufacturer's websites?

Look at Device Manager for other devices that are enabled. May be some IRQ conflict involved.

Eliminate/disable as many devices as you can until, hopefully, the problem ends.

Then add back devices one at time. If the problem is either one specific device or a combination of devices you should be able to discover the pattern.

Take your time and be methodical.

And you can use Task Manager and Resource Monitor to observe what your system is doing.

Good chance that some process or service might become active and the keys begin "sticking" thereafter.