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Is it possible to crash system from keyboard onlY?
« on: September 04, 2011, 04:18:23 PM »
A kid was randomly striking keys on my keyboard pretending he was typing. Everything crashed. Any ideas on what to do. Windows XP.
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Re: Is it possible to crash system from keyboard onlY?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2011, 04:32:27 PM »
Notice the Pause/Break button on the keyboard?  That will halt the CPU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_key

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Re: Is it possible to crash system from keyboard onlY?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2011, 08:54:03 PM »
Quote from: Computer_Commando on September 04, 2011, 04:32:27 PM
Notice the Pause/Break button on the keyboard?  That will halt the CPU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_key

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Re: Is it possible to crash system from keyboard onlY?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2011, 01:49:29 PM »
When you say "everything crashed", what did you see?
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