Wrap your brain around this one

[Quill]

My room mate is running Win XP (which im not used to yet) and has a little problem.

Whenever he presses "S" it types in caps only and whenever he presses "X" it opens Real Player... I tried removing Real and now it opens Media Player instead!

Updated drivers... no good
Removal of Keyboard and updated drivers... still no good
Big hammer and a Frys shopping spree... pondering now.

[dang]

so you have tried a different keyboard? Is it a usb or ps2 type keyboard?

if its ps2, what happens you plugin a usb keyboard?

[llbbl]

What type of driver / keyboard is he running?

goto Control Panel > Keyboard or through Device Manager.

[Quill]

Well I would have tried a USB KB if I had one, as for the driver I'll take a glance manana when he's not bussy playing WC3.

:vivi btw, 10 points for having this here.

[Ioman]

My conclusion is that there has to be some sort of software mapping the keys to various functions. Would this be something in the registry you need to look for? I would first of all look under your add/remove programs and look for any program you think might try to bind those keys to multimedia functions as well as your CAPS lock issue. Tell us what you find.

[RageSlave]

Try Windows button U and turn off accessability features. Unless she/he needs them of course.

[Ioman]

Any luck Quill?