Keyboard won't work on laptop

Anonymous
2011-02-27T03:17:37+00:00

I just woke my laptop up and the keyboard didn't work, every key that i hit typed 5. So I restarted my laptop and now the keyboard won't type nothing. Any answers?

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Anonymous
2011-02-28T08:48:22+00:00

Hi James,

Who is the manufacturer of Laptop?

Are you using external keyboard?

Most of the time when you hit letters you get numbers with laptop and the workaround is to Try hit the Fn Lock key and Num Lock Key,

If your keyboard stopped working completely then you may try the steps below:

Shutdown the laptop and Remove the battery. Hold in the power button for a few seconds. This resets the motherboard. Replace the batter and startup as normal.

If non of the options work then you may with system restore asper the Link below:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/system-restore 

Regards,

Syed Karim

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-04T16:53:15+00:00

    Well I am using Dell Inspiron 1545 and right now only my z and x keys does not work as fast as they used to and I have to press them multiple times just for 1 z, or x to appear/ work I need these keys to work for a game of mine (AKA Elsword).

    Also on this laptop I have a 250 GB hard disc that I have splitted some partitions (using a bootable repartitioning tool to split it without losing any information on that partition, Also used it to resize the 14.95 GB recovery partition to 40 GB with 36 MB Reserved for OEM things) on it so that it can have 102 GB for Windows 7 Ultimate (x64), and 90 GB for Windows 8 Pro (x64).

    my Windows 7 build on here is 7601 on that the keyboard before was just fine no issues with any key it probable is the 8 part of it but idk.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-24T21:52:00+00:00

    Hi Ahmed,

    were you able to fix it?

    if so, could you share please?

    I am having the same issue.

    Many Thanks!

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-19T18:02:33+00:00

    I am having a similar problem I spilt water on my keyboard when I did I quickly tipped it over and shook it but after that I didn't know that I had to take out the battery so now my keyboard doesn't work right now I am using the touch screen keyboard do I have to get a new keyboard?

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