Some of the keys on my keyboard have stopped working, nothing in order though. It's the z, k, l, n, m, ? and they only stopped working when I try for caps with the shift key. The weird thing is if I can't get the cap letter to work with one of the shift keys, it will work with the other with a few exceptions that I can get to work with caps lock, but what a pain this is turning out to be!

Any IDEA what's GOING on here and how I can fix it? I have an Acer Aspire 5100, running XP.Have you spilled anything on it? Try blowing it out with compressed air and shaking it upside down, there might be some crumbs or dust or something.Is Num Lock on?Press Shift key 5 times.Well, I took the trouble keys off including both shift keys and CLEANED under them. It wasn't dirty, found a very minimal amount of dust. nothing spilled on it or dropped on it, num lock is off and sticky keys is disabled. It's so RANDOM I guess I could need a new keyboard, even though it's only a YEAR and a half old. Well, Acer runs quite well but it isn't the best built laptop out there. Is it possible to just replace the keyboard on a laptop?Before you try and replace it, I would try to borrow someone's keyboard and try it with your laptop first. This is going to sound like a lame question, but how do you borrow a keyboard for a laptopFind a USB keyboard and plug it in the USB port.  Oh yeah...lol, did that. Worked fine  So the other keyboard worked but the laptop keyboard isn't working?