Some Keys on my Keyboard at times un-responsive

[PcGamerBiH]

Hello, thanks ahead for everyone in advance.

So I bought a new Mechanical keyboard, about a couple of months ago.

At the start I didn't have any problems with it but a few days ago I started noticing mostly in-game that the "W" key becomes unresponsive sometimes. I would hold to move forward and it would randomly stop moving until a second or so has past. The "T" key also has this problem but rarely, maybe because I don't use it as often. But when I am typing I generally don't have this problem, occasionally I would have to press it twice but that occurs rarely and it isn't to much of a hassle to deal with. It's just extremely annoying when playing video games as it stops my movement and at times has gotten me killed.

I want to try everything before opening the keyboard up and dismantling it. I bought compressed air, and removed the surrounding keys with the included Key Remover it came with and used the compressed air to clean inside the keys and inside the buttons just in case a piece of food or something on those lines got stuck in-between but it only helped a bit, doesn't happen as often as it did before but still happens.

I tried re-installing a fresh windows to rule out software issues. Currently I couldn't find any drivers for the keyboard and didn't come with any instructions for driver installation on the Internet.

 

[Ralston18]

Try the keyboard on another computer.

Try another keyboard on your current computer.

See if the problem follows the keyboard or stays with the computer.

And try cleaning the keyboard again. However, use a different method:

Spread out a light colored cloth towel or some paper towels. Disconnect the keyboard and turn it upside down over the cloth or paper.

Firmly, but gently tap the ends and sides of the keyboard with the heel of your hand. See if you can get any more junk/debris, etc. to dislodge from inside the keys. Compressed air can just jam things in tighter.

And look for the receipt. Could be the keyboard has failed and could be under warranty.

 

[PcGamerBiH]

Currently I don't have another computer to test it on.

I have another keyboard, the Razer Deathstalker 2013 and it works fine, but I prefer the mechanical one over the membrane one.

I will try doing that, but I haven't eaten or put any food around the keyboard to lodge something inside, but I will most certainly try doing your method of cleaning, possibly solving the problem.


But I might have fixed the issue. When I was going through the instructions that came with the keyboard I noticed it had a few options built into the FN+ key, it had a 6KRO option and a 24KRO option, it was currently set on 24KRO and once I switched to the 6KRO setting I have yet to get the "W" or "T" key's to be unresponsive.

Seems strange that something like that was causing such problems.

 

[Ralston18]

Interesting:

Does make sense with respect to "KRO".

Reference: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/terms.php?t=#KRO

Between the hardware, software/firmware, and documentation it is not at all uncommon to find strange things.

Mostly of the "buggy" type.

Maybe 24KRO was a marketing concept that was there even if unneeded, impractical, and probably (for me at least) not at all viable.

Developers did just enough work to be able to claim 24KRO. The KRO race is on.....

 

[PcGamerBiH]

Yeah switching to 6KRO seemed to fix it, I've been messing around with it ever since and it hasn't happened yet. Could be a bug, but thank you for the tips anyway. Going to use that method of cleaning for now on.