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My left and up arrow keys don't work

My arrow keys on my external keyboard don't work... scroll lock is OFF and when I press the keys they type letters. Left sometimes types "b" or "bn" and up types "gh" - I've searched the internets for solutions and haven't found anything. This problem just started yesterday but under no circumstances do the misfunctioning arrow keys work. Any help would be awesome.

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Try another keyboard. If the problem is fixed then get a new one. They are really cheap now a days.

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Hot key

for mine it's:
tap scroll lock twice then press 1 or 2
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