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Certain Keyboard Keys Are Not Working

Alamer99

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Sep 8, 2015
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Hello Today I Have Some Kind of problem on My HP Pavillion G6-2246sx
My Keyboard is Kind of Working, While Most Of The Keys Do Work Those Keys Are Not Working At All
[ESC, BACKSPACE, G, H, ', F4, F7, F11, (numpad)*, (numpad)8]

Here is an image Of Keyboard Test Hope it makes The Idea Clear

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*Green Keys Work, Dark Grey Works Too , Light Grey Does Not Work

The Thing is That The Keyboard Was Working No Problem About 2-3 Days Ago

And I Did Google It And Found That Some People Have The Same Problem Unfortunately I Did Not Find A Solution

Note: I Used On-Screen Keyboard To Write H/G 😛
 
Hi,

Since on-screen keyboard is working it's not the language and region. What you need to try to perform a System Restore, put it back on to an earlier date and time when everything was working fine. Here's how to perform System Restore
- Press Windows + R at the same time the type in "rstrui.exe" in the box that would open then click OK.
- Once System Restore is open click on Next and on the next screen select the date and time when you think that keyboard was still working.
- Click Next and lastly Finish to start System Restore.
- After it finish the restoration it would reboot and try the keys again after it reboots.
 

thanks for the reply but it did not help me
i searched for the problem and found this http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~motl/hp-keyboard/compaq-keyboard.html
i did it but it did not help i cleaned the connector over and over but no change at all

im not bothered by h nor g (im a little 😛 ) those are easy the important keys are esc , backspace and the windows key i cant even access the bios because escape key is not working even before windows booting