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Here is the problem. After 10 minutes or so the Enter keys stop working. Both keys, the main key and the number pad key. I tryed a different keyboard and it does the same thing. If I restart it starts working again. I shutdown, made sure the board was plugged in good. It was. Restarted, tryed the key and it worked. Then I didnt touch the keyboard for 10 min and then it stopped working again. I'm not sure what it could be. Maybe the MB? The computer is at normal temp. And I'm using a standard keyboard. Also using XP home. I'm on my last spair MB so I cant swap it out right now. Any ideas?

USB or PS/2? If it's USB try a different port and re-installing the USB driver. Have you changed anything lately?
Maybe update the motherboard driver too.

Yeah I forgot about that part. Its a PS/2 keyboard. The only thing I've done was add an extra video card to run dual monitors. But that was a few weeks ago. This started happening yesterday I think. Oh and it does the same thing on both monitors. I don't think it matters though. Oh and a week ago I tryed to add a SCSI card but it didn't work. The SCSI card is still in there because I'm still looking for drivers.

Could be a software issue ... someone pulled a prank on you, or a virus of some sort ...

I have Norton Firewall and anti virus going all the time.(both up to date) Something I just noticed is that the enter key only works on the IE address bar. I type in the address, hit enter and it goes. But the enter key doesn't work anywhere else. Like if I'm trying to type something. It sure makes typing a PIA. I'll run a virus check just to make sure.