Cactus Music
 
 
The keyboard is getting unresponsive as letters go missing when you type. 

This happen to me a few years back on my Toshiba satellite and it turned out to be the keyboard.
Needed replacing and its one of the easier things you can do for replacement parts.

I looked into that a year ago- they don't make one for something this old. The battery is also toast but none of these things matter anymore as it's not worth spending money on at this point. If you hit the keys firmly they work. 

Most of the older Toshiba satellites (if that's what you have) will work with anything around a 4 year period.
Mine was replaced from a TS 4 years newer than mine. the ribbon cable is interchangeable on almost all Toshibas.
The only change is the keyboard size itself. I might even have one hanging around (let me check the shipping costs. If it works you can send me the cost of shipping) as I do a lot of work on Desktops and Laptops. Matter of fact just finished up on a Toshiba Satellite today that was having the dreaded Connection PXE fail. The CPU needed to be re seated with more thermal paste and a new Hard drive.
Quick 50 bucks on a laptop that's only 2 years old.

Thanks Chuck, but it's a Sony Vaio. 
It came with Vista, that's how old it is. 
 
The Laptop which is the topic of this thread that I just upgraded is an Acer and came with W8. It has a keyboard issue as well and I traced it inside to the ribbon cable has been squashed buy typing. Bad design. It works fine using a wireless keyboard mouse combo. I made it so the keyboard sits perfectly on top of the old keyboard using some felt pads for spacers. It's actuality better this way as I like a wireless keyboard for tracking vocals. 
 
This laptop will be used to record all 65 of our songs which all the midi bed tracks are now completed for. Next I will lay down my guitar/dobro/mandolin parts. Then I do all my vocals. Then it goes to my friends house where he can take his time recording his 12 string, banjo and vocals. 
I'll have to teach him a bit about Sonar first. 
 
Last night I think I got everything running... I hate Air's installs. real stupid and every time I do it I curse them for making it so different from everyone else. The default path is only for 32 bit, you have to manually direct it to your 64 bit VST's folder.