I have a ideazon merc stealth keyboard. I use it for gaming and have not had any issues with it until recently. The problem started about 2 weeks ago when I launched the game Americas army. When I launched the game I didnt notice any thing unusual. But when I started to play the game my keyboard's backlighting began to flash and flicker. When the keyboard began to flash and flicker I lost all controll of my character. It did this intermittedly and without a logical pattern. The amount of time the keys went out was anywhere from 1 second to 3 seconds ata time and the interval is any where from 3 times every second to 10 times in a few seconds and continuosly repeating but in no logical pattern. I closed americas army and played sevweral other games with no problems. I then prceeded to launch call of duty 5 world at war. It did the same thing in the multiplayer but not in the single player or co-op modes. It has been doing this for 2 weeks now and it only does it when I play americas army online or call of duty 5 world at war in multiplayer mode. No other games seem to reproduce this issue. I have uninstalled and cleaned my programs and drivers folder and reinstalled the latest drivrs and software and have updated everything. I have disabled the MM drivers for it and that seemed to help for about 2 games. I have unistalled my .net frameworks and reinstalled them. and I tried with the .net framework uninstalled. I have reformatted my hard drive and have a clean install. I have even gone so far as to uninstall the sp3 service pack. I dont know what to do next. My pc specs are as follows Field Value Computer Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Service Pack Service Pack 3 DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name disguised User Name disguised Motherboard CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 630, 3377 MHz (15 x 225) Motherboard Name Unknown Motherboard Chipset Unknown System Memory 2048 MB BIOS Type Award (09/25/08) Communication Port Communications Port (COM1) Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1) Display Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT (1024 MB) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT (1024 MB) Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (MPF4150066323) Monitor HP 2009 Series Wide LCD Monitor [NoDB] (CNC9080TTZ) Multimedia Audio Adapter Line 6 TonePort DI-S Audio Adapter Realtek HD Audio 2nd output Audio Adapter Realtek HD Audio output Storage IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Controller IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Controller IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller SCSI/RAID Controller JMicron JMB36X Controller Disk Drive EPSON Stylus Storage USB Device Disk Drive ST3250410AS (232 GB, IDE) Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B Optical Drive SONY DVD RW DRU-830A SMART Hard Disks Status OK Partitions C: (NTFS) 119232 MB (64045 MB free) D: (NTFS) 119240 MB (77019 MB free) Total Size 232.9 GB (137.8 GB free) Input Keyboard HID Keyboard Device Mouse HID-compliant mouse Network Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet (192.168.1.101) Peripherals Printer Adobe PDF Printer EPSON Stylus CX6000 Series Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer Printer Send To OneNote 2007 USB1 Controller Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller [NoDB] USB2 Controller Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller [NoDB] USB Device EPSON CX5900/CX6000/DX6000 USB Device Generic USB Hub USB Device Ideazon Merc Stealth MM USB Human Interface Device USB Device Ideazon Merc Stealth USB Human Interface Device USB Device Line 6 TonePort DI-S USB Device Logitech Mic (Ultra Vision) USB Device Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision USB Device Logitech USB Camera (Ultra Vision) USB Device Microsoft Fingerprint Reader USB Device USB Composite Device USB Device USB Composite Device USB Device USB Composite Device USB Device USB Human Interface Device USB Device USB Human Interface Device USB Device USB Mass Storage Device USB Device USB Printing Support Field Value CPU Properties CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 630 CPU Alias Prescott-2M CPU Stepping R0 Engineering Sample No CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz CPUID Revision 00000F4Ah CPU Speed CPU Clock 3372.84 MHz (original: 3000 MHz, overclock: 12%) CPU Multiplier 15.0x CPU FSB 224.86 MHz (original: 200 MHz, overclock: 12%) CPU Cache L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions L1 Data Cache 16 KB L2 Cache 2 MB (On-Die, ECC, ATC, Full-Speed) Motherboard Properties Motherboard ID 09/25/2008-C55-MCP51-P5N-ESLI-00 Motherboard Name Unknown BIOS Properties System BIOS Date 09/25/08 Video BIOS Date 03/07/08 Award BIOS Type Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Award BIOS Message ASUS P5N-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1301 DMI BIOS Version ASUS P5N-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1301

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