Re: Keyboard just stopped working - Inspiron 2650 notebook



On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:44:04 GMT, "KWA" <junkmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do or anything I can check?
This is truly puzzling. Is it possible for the keyboard to simply quit
working?

Hi Keith,

I doubt this will be very helpful to you but here is what I would do.
Sometimes in the process of doing all this things magically start
working again.

I would first look at all bios options. If there is something related
to keyboards in even an indirect fashion, I might turn it off and
boot, then restart, turn it back on and reboot.

I would boot up into SAFE mode, and see if it works there.

Actually the first thing that I would do is go into the device manager
and see if anything is flagged.

It's amazing how many computer problems I have solved or got more
insights into by "kludging around" with it. (I know, I am making all
you technical experts groan lol).

Journey

P.S. -- one final and very important step:

If none of the above works, I would take a BIG hammer and BANG on the
keyboard until you loosen up all of the keys -- make sure you bang
firmly and evenly over all of them.
.



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