E521 Keyboard key problem

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 03:10:24PM -0700, Simon Gao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have one E521 AMD X2 machine that has been having keyboard key 
> randomly repeating problem, sometimes a random key would repeat very 
> fast and many many times like 
> thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. 
> When this happens, I have to reboot the machine to temporarily fix the 
> problem. The problem will come back in a few days.
> 
> The machine runs RHEL 4.4 x86_64 on it. I've also updated bios to 1.1.4. 
> This seems not help at all.
> 
> Anyone can provide any help?

Can you disable PowerNow in the BIOS and see if that helps?

There was a recently discovered USB keyboard disconnect problem that only
affects machines with PowerNow enabled.
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Michael