Ok My keyboard needed to be cleaned. Cleaned it but I couldn't get the space bar to work right. Lost the spring. So I went out to the garage and dug out the the old key board from the win98 NEC setup. First thing I noticed was how this keyboard is so much heavier. It's bigger too. It's quieter also. Smoother. Thing is it was used so much that the letters are somewhat faded. This thing is built like a brick shit house! Sometimes just because something is newer doesn't mean it's better.