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Keyboard Failure

Forum discussion tagged with Keyboard Failure.
  1. LeoLuca

    Question Laptop Keyboard Turns Off - Turns Back On When Any USB is Disconnected/Connected

    I have a ASUS GL503VM Laptop (ROG Strix) and it always has the following problem. I turn on the Laptop, entire my Windows PIN, and after the keyboard does not receive input for a few seconds, it becomes unresponsive. None of the keys work. The keyboard becomes responsive again when any USB...
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    Solved! A Strange Escape Button Problem

    Hello, this just happened today when I was forced to postpone my work because of this. When I turn on my laptop, I get things that have never happened for 5 years using the same laptop. I got a notification "please select boot device". So I chose to go to bios settings to reset the default...
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    Solved! asus laptop blank screen after cleaning

    Hey.ive just cleaned my k43sa laptop.i removed keyboard and dvd & hdd & ram. then installed all.after turning on , screen stays blank, keyboard won't work, fan is on,dvd drive is on,and all the LEDs are dead but the power.what should i do?please help
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    Solved! my acer aspire's some keys are not working.

    the keys are 'P,T,U,J and the left arrow key.it works after frequent hard/soft touches or a much harder touch.
  5. S

    Laptop In-Built Keyboard Fault

    My Laptop's inbuilt keys are not working. any of them.i dont worry about it at all. i got a usb keyboard and plugged it. but when im using the laptop some keys are being pressed all the time. i cant use the laptop at all. so i used ''KeyTweak'' and disabled the keys for now. i need to install a...
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    Solved! MSI Keyboard Keys not wlorking

    The Q R and D keys on my MSI GP62 6QF laptop keyboard are not working. If it helps, my Windows 10 64-bit is up to date, I've updated all the drivers in Device Manger and my BIOS is version E16J5IMS.10F, 21/01/2016. There appears to be a newer BIOS (at least the date is newer) on my laptop...
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    Solved! Laptop keyboard freezes then entire laptop crashes

    I have this 4 year old Toshiba Satellite U840W that's keyboard would stop working after 5-10 minutes from boot up and the laptop being unable to find and connect to any wi-fi. I have no idea what to do asides forcibly restarting my laptop. and seldomly it would freeze up and get a bsod, If I...
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    Laptop Keyboard Specific Buttons Not Working?

    I have a Toshiba L750D which suddenly developed a problem where the entire F1-F3 down to x-c row/column of keys does not work at all, not on BIOS, or on Windows or on any rescue environment or Linux from usb media. I thought it was the keyboard. So I bought a new one and replaced it. The same...
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    Solved! Keyboard Failure on MB reinstall

    Hello all, I have an asus zenbook ux305CA. The motherboard on the machine failed about 2 years into ownership. The symptoms of the failure were fail to attempt to post and failure of any of the LED lights on the external machine to light up when connected to power. It seemed to fail randomly...
  10. J

    Pr0blems with my keyb0ard n0t w0rking

    Hi, my name is Jay. Ive had my lapt0p f0r a while n0w, and recently s0me 0f the keys 0n my keyb0ard have st0pped functi0ning and i have had t0 res0rt t0 using alternate keys, 0n screen keyb0ard, and c0py and paste...
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    Solved! Partial laptop keyboard failure

    HP envy M6 1105dx bought in 2013 in USA. WIN 10, upgraded from WIN 8 I removed and replaced laptop keyboard in a cleaning project and after reassembly, many of the keys on the keyboard no longer work. I tried cleaning contact and reassembling carefully with no success. External keyboard works...
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    Asus Laptop Keyboard and Touchpad not working

    Hello, I have an Asus k550j laptop and my keyboard and touchpad are not working. It started like 3-4 months ago. I used external keyboard and usb mouse during that time and everything worked fine. About 2 weeks ago I decided to get it repaired because I thought it was a hardware problem since...
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    Solved! Certain keys on my Asus laptop will only work when pressed with other keys

    I have an Asus Republic of gamers laptop and today certain keys stopped working but will work as normal when another key is pressed simultaneously. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the keyboard but the problem persists. The keys work perfectly as long as I'm pressing another key.
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    my simcard is blocked. how can i open it . i don't have puk number

    how can i open in my sim card
  15. M

    GT72S F, G, andSpacebar

    Hi, Up until recently, starting around a month ago, these certain laptop keys do not function correctly, and I am having trouble even posting this, going over keys multiple times so they work. Anyway, the F, G, and Spacebar keys are not working as they are supposed to. Frequently, those 3 will...
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    Keyboard not works well

    Hi guys, I need a help. I'm using an samsung series 5 model np510r5e. Last day my keyboard became a mess. When I type "backspace" shows character "eigth", when I type character "a" shows "c", and the mess follow in others keys. I already search something about type "FN + num lock" but it not...
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    1234 and space arent working

    1234 en spacebar arent working unless i hold down the FN button on a few toshiba laptops i am pretty sure its not a hardware issue but a software because i have it on a few diffrent laptops its really weird someone knows whats up?
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    Solved! Acer Laptop Random Keys not working after water spill

    Hey I got some (not a lot) water spilled on my laptop keyboard and now many of keys doesn't seem to work, or they get stuck. Not physically stuck but when you press 's' for example it just keeps typing sssss.... Some keys still work normally. The laptop itself works normally. All usb ports...
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    Toshiba Satellite C40D-B letter k key problem

    I do not know what happened but after a year of service to me my k key wont respond anymore and it can't type anything, I was wondering if there is a way to fix this at home, since i dont want to be bringing a usb keyboard everywhere I go.
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    i need help

    My laptop's "2","4","5","7","0","~","backspace","i","o","ctrl" keys not working i tried to update standart p/s keyboard but still no response Acer V5- 473G