Hi Tom,
Most notebooks without keypads permit you to turn on a keypad in part
of the main keyboard. You may have inadvertently pressed the key
combo that did this. It has to be turned off again. I don't know if
this is the problem, but it's worth checking on at any rate.
73,
Dave, W7OQ
At 03:34 PM 7/6/2014, you wrote:
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>I noticed a very strange keyboard problem this afternoon with my University
>laptop computer.
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>Basically, the entire keyboard works except for the group of keys that
>contains 9, o, l, and the period.
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>For some reason, this group of keys is no longer working.
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>What is really strange is that the keyboard was working fine yesterday, and
>the problem suddenly appeared this afternoon.
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>Has anyone ever seen this sort of thing before, and, if so, how did you
>solve it?
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>In reality, this is a University-owned computer, so it is a problem that
>they will have to help me with, but I thought it would be best to talk to
>them tomorrow with as much information and as many ideas as possible.
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>Everything works fine with an external USB keyboard; it's just the one on
>the laptop itself that is exhibiting this weird behavior.
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>Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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