Keyboard gone mad

[bright.ton42]

Just gave the keyboard on my Lenovo laptop a wipe and now  the keys won't work properly,  eg  'k' types  as k;p  and 'i' as 'iop'  and a couple of others affected.

I'm guessing  i pressed somethin g i shouldn't have done but don't know what.  Anyway it 's unusable.....any suggestions   please?

[enigmabear]

I'm really not sure

Did you wipe the whole keyboard, or just one area? 

Is it possible you might have hit the fn key with another key at the same time ?

[bright.ton42]

Hi enigma,   yes stupidly i gave the whole  keyboard one big swipe so wd have hit the Fn key.   What is it???   Have tried hitting it again but keys still  not working properly

.   

[enigmabear]

The fn (function) key, it can be used for oodles of different things, but also if that gets hit/held with another key, it does all kinds of other  things (depending on what the other key is) 

[bright.ton42]

Does anyone know how to disable it.... do i have to go into   bios?  If so how....a bit lost here

[enigmabear]

I'm afraid I have never used a Lenovo, I don'twant to suggest something that might stuff it even more

I've been looking at Google but most things I have come up with are about numbers lock getting jammed on, but that of course bring up numbers and not what you've described

I'll keep having little looks as I can and see if I can anything like what you are getting

But of course, hopefully someone who knows more about computers than I do will be around soon 

Fingers crossed

[enigmabear]

I keep coming up with this page

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Function-Keys.html

When I Google about the k;p 

But it is all clear as mud to me

Just thought I would put it in as there is a lot of k p action talked about 

[gutterpunkz05]

What happens if you turn it off wait a minute or so and turn it back on.  Start with the real high tech solutions first

[bright.ton42]

Tks enigma,  clear as mud to me too  🙂  But thanks. 

Gutterpunk tried that but still no good.  

Looking like another callout to ths tech bloke

[gutterpunkz05]

Have you tried   1.  Turn off    2.  Unplug if applicable     3.  remove battery

Then reverse order