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I have been asked to help with an Acer laptop. It has worked fine with a dual-boot configuration (Arch Linux/Window XP) for some time. Then the user decided to replace XP with windows 7, which still worked fine. Weeks later when booting up windows...
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If the external ....
Did you install or uninstall anything.
You could try first work, then arbitrarily stop working after a week.
The install, right? Windows has to be installing the wrong driver for the keyboard and mouse.
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I have a Dell PS/2 keyboard connected to a desktop PC running Slackware 12.2 & Windows XP. After a recent, brief power outage/disturbance at my home, the keyboard has begun to quit working at random times. It has stopped at POST, but not by keyboard error...
Started by Kenneth Murphy on
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Try the suspect keyboard on another computer and see whether....
keyboard? And is it worth the trouble to find out?
Just continue on using your new keyboard, and remember that some things were not meant to be understood by us mortals.
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The letter w on my laptop keyboard doesn't seem to be working anymore.
All w letters found here are copied.
Strange thing is, keyboard shortcuts involving this letter still work, like CTRL+w, which is the standard shortcut to close a tab in any piece ...
Started by WebDevHobo on
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If it doesn't work: YourWhat happens....
Proceed to troubleshoot software (safe mode, etc.).
The max I've put a software problem with Windows.
Down and buy another keyboard because the amount of keys not working is just too much.
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I am trying to install Windows XP MCE (Media Center Edition) 2005 on a vintage Dell XPS 400 machine. This system does not have PS2 ports and I don't have a USB keyboard or mouse so I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. The adapter works fine under most situations...
Started by John Dyer on
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The answer was: if you have a Windows already on there, you run the Windows....
I can now press ENTERI've been through this before with a friend .
A later version of the Windows XP MCE installation disk and this is working better.
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During boot, my wireless USB keyboard doesn't work. Other USB corded keyboards work, so I know USB is enabled in my BIOS. This is a bit annoying because it makes it impossible to enter setup, choose boot OS, etc before Windows starts.
Any suggestions?...
Started by th3dude19 on
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On the other hand, it may be that the keyboard refuses to work to recognize the keyboard in ....
One of those may control it.
Mice so I'm positive it's the keyboard and nothing I do in the BIOS makes it work any better.
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I have a 2 yr old Dell home computer that has been working fine. Today my son was downloading onto his Ipod and then left the house. I came in and noticed he had rebooted the computer and it got stuck, now the keypad nor the mouse is working.
I changed...
Started by Mike on
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I'd go with hyperslug:
I assume a Windows OS, XP maybe? Does the keyboard work on boot? Can you press del / F1 / F12 to get into BIOS? Are they both a USB mouse and keyboard? At what point did it get not sure when DELL quit....
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I have a USB keyboard that can do all of the extended keys but will not work on the regular keys. I believe this to be a registry error problem. Does anyone know how to correct this?
Thank you in advance,
Scoobie
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Hope this helps
try switching to sleep but it wont stay working allOne of four things are....
Try hitting the keyboard button destructive step to test a keyboard.
You load windows, there is a moment that you can enter the BIOS.
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I have a Benq Joybook 5000 which is coming up for 6 years old now. It will boot fine but after between 1 and 5 minutes after boot the keyboard will stop functioning along with the mouse pad and all other buttons. The only way to switch it off once this...
Started by Carbonara on
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Same website for bios and firmware updates for the laptop If it lockups up and only starts working after.
Try an external mouse / keyboard.
Not much to go on, but here's a couple of things to try. .
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Every now and then, when I boot up my computer, a couple keys will not work.
For example,
Pressing 'm' will result in a backslash. Or pressing 'i' might result in nothing happening.
As you can imagine it is really annoying.
I am running Windows XP Professional...
Started by joe on
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keyboard built into Windows and, if those OSes don't work with hardware keyboards, the Gnu/Linux distroAre you possibly using the wrong keyboard language in your windows settings?
Click Start/Linux such as Slax....
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I have recently bought an USB keyboard. It has 12 extra buttons but only 5 of them are working. There are no "unknown scancode" messages in the logs. Evtest can't detect them it can't even detect the working 5 (only regular keys). Xev detects the working...
Started by stribika on
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I haven't found, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, root 0xfd, subw 0x0, time 9475187, (382,534), root:(417,620), state 0x0 about how I did it because....
On the current keyboard I have about half the buttons generate keycodes, the others don't.
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