I am using a "Dell by Microsoft" Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro 
(Model no. RT 9403 V. 5FTW) which I moved to my new computer from my 
Dell Pentium III/Win98SE machine.

I have been using the keyboard on the new machine without incident 
for about eleven months. In the last two weeks I've been having an 
intermittent problem with the non-numeric keys on the numeric keypad:

pressing "NumLock" loads Windows Media Player
pressing the minus "-" key puts the computer in sleep mode
pressing the plus "+" key blanks the screen

I tried reinstalling drivers, first from the Resource CD that came 
with the Dell --Windows couldn't find a better driver-- then from the 
WinXP Pro CD --Windows replaced the driver for Microsoft Natural 
Keyboard Pro Hot Keys.

Under Keyboards, Device Manager shows only Microsoft USB Natural 
Keyboard Pro. Device manager shows Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro, 
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro Consumer Controls, and Microsoft 
Natural Keyboard Pro Hot Keys (no "USB") as devices under Human 
Interface Devices.

My OS is WinXP Pro SP2 on a custom PC, with an AMD Athlon 3800+ 64X2 
dual core processor,  ASUS AN85X   mobo and NVIDIA GeForce  6600 video card.

Any suggestions?

Lawrence T. Gurley
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