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half of laptop keyboard malfunction
Name: Dunam Date: April 8, 2008 at 18:09:28 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1.4GHz/265MB Product: Toshiba Satellite L10-154
Comment:
Half of the keys of my laptop is malfunctioning: The right side of the keyboard corresponds to numbers and other letters. The left side functions normally.
When I connect my wireless keyboard, that one works flawlessly with the laptop.
I don't think it has anything to do with the problem, but the only two things that changed were that I switched back to wireless instead of wired connection to my router (secured) and I reinstalled the drivers to the wireless network card.
I want to know if buying a new laptop keyboard will solve this and if there are any other possible (cheaper?) solutions.
Name: Rayburn Date: April 8, 2008 at 20:16:05 Pacific
Reply:
Press the Num Lk key and that should fix it!
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Response Number 2
Name: Bakers Date: April 8, 2008 at 23:54:23 Pacific
Reply:
Or it may be "Fn + NumLk" Keys pressed together !! to remove the number lock you put on...
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Response Number 3
Name: Dunam Date: April 9, 2008 at 05:00:51 Pacific
Reply:
I'm only going to be able to try that out tonight when I got home from my job, but just in case it doesn't work I'd like to ask one follow-up:
Wouldn't restarting the computer have solved it, if that was the problem?
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Response Number 4
Name: Rayburn Date: April 9, 2008 at 05:53:58 Pacific
Reply:
It never did when I had the problem. I just tried it on this laptop again and my keystroke was just the Num Lk key. I too thought it was FN + Num Lk but not on this Dell Latitude.
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Response Number 5
Name: Dunam Date: April 9, 2008 at 17:39:49 Pacific
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