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
    2016-04-25T03:51:50+00:00

    Thanks so much for the valuable information Syed! I "reset" my first motherboard and it worked like a charm! I must say I had my doubts that this would do the trick but I did just as said and it immediately worked!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T05:49:23+00:00

    I figured it out. Although my case was a bit different. It happened after I accidentally put my math book over the keyboard pressing several keys at once. Suddenly, none of the keys worked. Turns out, the keyboard was ignoring every key I typed because of Filter Keys(that message that pops up when you press shift five times in a row or something like that). 

    To Fix it, go to Filter Keys, turn it off , Apply the new setting and everything should start to work again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T04:34:04+00:00

    Try buying another keyboard, that's what I did.

     How would you use a new keyboard on the laptop?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-24T01:11:12+00:00

    Try buying another keyboard, that's what I did.

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