Text not formatted correctly

MouldyOldDough

HillStreetBlues said:

Use Windows on-screen keyboard as that will narrow down the culprit.

OK - The on-screen keyboard works fine

My USB keyboard - now - doesn't work at all

And a bluetooth keyboard also doesn't work at all - it links straight away but doesn't function as a keyboard

This implies that it is a software issue rather than hardware....

I may carry out a full rebuild/reset of the PC to try to resolve it - since there was no other software on it yet !

MouldyOldDough

I have just reset the PC (using the inbuilt copy of Windows rather than a downloaded version) and discovered that the USB connected keyboard still does not let me type "spaces" - but the bluetooth keyboard works fine

The keyboard is not faulty - it works fine when used on my laptop and my Raspberry Pi !

No idea why or what's going on.....

I have not changed any settings yet !!

booneruk

I've never seen anything like this in all my years working with PC hardware! It sounds like the problem is happening on a relatively clean install of Windows.

I'd be tempted to find somewhere in the BIOS where text can be input, or to create some kind of minimal Linux boot USB drive. Something to rule out Windows being the culprit.

Cougar

booneruk said:

I'd be tempted... to create some kind of minimal Linux boot USB drive. Something to rule out Windows being the culprit.

This is what I'd do.

A USB keyboard as about as basic a HID as you can get.  Does it still glitch in a different USB port on the same machine?

Motherboard chipset drivers up to date, no yellow icons in Device Manager?

MouldyOldDough

IvanOpinion said:

MouldyOldDough said:

I am setting up a new (mini) PC and have discovered that text is not being formatted correctly - right across the board - from "search box"  to address bar in Firefox and Edge

I am unable to include "spaces" in text .....

Anyideawhy ?

You say "across the board", are we talking about in the browser or in other programs like Notepad, Word etc. 
If it is just in the browser try disabling all your extensions to see if that fixes the problem. 
If it does enable them one at a time to find the culprit.

Yes, I am talking of every program 

MouldyOldDough

booneruk said:

I've never seen anything like this in all my years working with PC hardware! It sounds like the problem is happening on a relatively clean install of Windows.

I'd be tempted to find somewhere in the BIOS where text can be input, or to create some kind of minimal Linux boot USB drive. Something to rule out Windows being the culprit.

I have checked the BIOS and there's no mention of inputs / keyboards 

MouldyOldDough

Cougar said:

booneruk said:

I'd be tempted... to create some kind of minimal Linux boot USB drive. Something to rule out Windows being the culprit.

This is what I'd do.

A USB keyboard as about as basic a HID as you can get.  Does it still glitch in a different USB port on the same machine?

Motherboard chipset drivers up to date, no yellow icons in Device Manager?

Yes the same on every USB port
Device manager shows no errors
Motherboard drivers are all OK. No errors either
It looks as if this is an unsolvable fault 

booneruk

MouldyOldDough said:

booneruk said:

I've never seen anything like this in all my years working with PC hardware! It sounds like the problem is happening on a relatively clean install of Windows.

I'd be tempted to find somewhere in the BIOS where text can be input, or to create some kind of minimal Linux boot USB drive. Something to rule out Windows being the culprit.

I have checked the BIOS and there's no mention of inputs / keyboards 

I mean finding somewhere to type text within the BIOS. For example, my BIOS allows me to save settings profiles. It will ask me for the profile name, and it's there I'd be able to type something and a perfect place to see if my keyboard space bar is working outside windows. Maybe there's a search feature too, you just need somewhere to type text and test your space bar.

moneysaver1978

Have you tried booting up in Safe Mode? Been a few years since I used a Windows machine but it was helpful to debug issues.

MouldyOldDough

IvanOpinion said:

Clutching at a straw here, but by any chance have you changed the default font that windows uses?
Have you tried a different keyboard?

Nothing changed at all -
A small Bluetooth connected keyboard works perfectly now  - but the USB connected one still doesn't allow SPACES to be typed !!