Keyboard And Mouse Errors And Hardware Faults

A pc without keyboard and mouse is like a gaming console without a controller.You will find that you can not do anything without mouse and keyboard,because keyboard and mouse are basically used in everything including pc games.These devices sometimes fail to operate.Some of the problems are generated due to worn out hardware,some of them are present from manufacturing time.There are two common problems of mouse and keyboard that we can rectify.

• mouse double clicks when you single clicks: this is a  common problem,in this problem when you single clicks the mouse itself takes it as if you have double clicked.This problem may be present from the time of manufacturing.This problem arises due to errors in the south bridge which contains the I/O controller,the controller may be faulty.The solution to this problem is to switch between primary and secondary buttons that is make your left mouse button right and right button left.Do it as follows.
  Goto control panel,then click mouse a dialog box will open.check the option which shows "switch primary and secondary button".Now you can use your mouse normally but in an inverse way.
  
• ps/2 keyboard not responding: you will find someday that your ps/2 keyboard is not detected during bios bootup.This is due to ps/2 ports failure which includes the failure of the fuse on the motherboard which reports a keyboard interface error during bios.If there is not an option of usb on your pc then you have to change the ports,but if you have usb ports then you can you can use a usb keyboard instead of ps/2 keyboard.

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Do you remember the high speed Ethernet modem which always showed the network activity while browsing. In that kind of a modem there were many lights but only three of them are operational for a single PC. These three lights were link, sending and receiving. These led lights starts blinking when modem sends or receive data. But nowadays we all are using latest network technologies such as EDGE, 3G etc. in which we use a wireless pen drive like modem.

Most of the wireless modems have a built in led which shows the network activity but most of them do not have any led at all to show the network activity. Still you can view the network activity through your keyboards LEDs. You can set up your keyboard's lights to show you the network activity that is sending and receiving. Your keyboard lights will blink whenever you send or receive data. So here is the trick to convert your keyboard lights in to modem lights which show network activity in a windows PC.

How To Use Keyboard Lights As Modem Network Lights

• Download network lights.

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• If it is a zip file then extract it and start the application.
• The application will run in the background.
• Now whenever you send or receive data your keyboard lights will blink.
• You can setup all the three lights that is which one you want to use for sending and receiving. You can use only two lights.

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