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Keyboard gone mad

bright.ton42 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 04:59:59 GMT

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?

Re: Keyboard gone mad

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 05:10:12 GMT

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 ?

Re: Keyboard gone mad

bright.ton42 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 05:46:27 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 05:49:49 GMT

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)

Re: Keyboard gone mad

bright.ton42 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:13:50 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:17:57 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:25:20 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

gutterpunkz05 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:46:17 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

bright.ton42 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:46:32 GMT

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

Re: Keyboard gone mad

gutterpunkz05 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:55:06 GMT

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

Then reverse order

Re: Keyboard gone mad

bright.ton42 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:31:33 GMT

Ok thanks will try that. Meanwhile by going into the

Bios whc h took me forever i disabled the Hot Keys so now only 2 letters are causing trouble. Do you think doing a Restore to an earlier time might fix it?