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Tryanything
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 Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: Keyboard keys not working |
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Hi everybody
Wonder if you can help,  one of my daughters let the other daughter on her laptop and now she cant log in
 as none of the keys work on the keypad except the vowels AEIOU any help gratefully accepted
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Wood Magnet
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Use text speak.  
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Teabag
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i would try plugging in a usb keyboard for now... then she could still use it.. however its not a fix for the built in keyboard i know...
theres also this tip which could also help out if needed...
windows XP and XP Pro have a nice little feature to help
its an "On screen Keyboard" controlled with the mouse.
even if you have no troubles atm, I recomend you type "osk" (without "") in the "Run" box so if your keyboard ever screws up you can still select it from the drop down and do basic things like chat in msn ect... until you get a new keyboard.
hope it helps ;)
ps are you sure no keys are jammed down... could cause this problem i guess... try pressing each key individually one at a time and see if any feel different.
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Hoovie
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never heard of a fault where all keys but the vowels stop working  - sounds sort of like it might be a silly virus.
Did you try an external keyboard and did that work normally?
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never heard of either ..you sure this is for real ,sat here waiting for the punch line 
just tried googling it but nothing at all
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Must be constanently missing out the vowels.
I'll get my coat.................................
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Hoovie
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Heard of the problem a bit like when a mouse stops working properly - all the voles are broken.
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| Hoovie wrote: |
Heard of the problem a bit like when a mouse stops working properly - all the voles are broken.
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Tryanything
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| Foggy wrote: |
| never heard of either ..you sure this is for real ,sat here waiting for the punch line : |
Dead real no messing Foggy, using the laptop keypad only thing that worked was the vowels
Got the on screen keypad up and fuffed around with that, managed to log in and do a system restore and a clean up and everything seems hunky dory
Thanks for your help chaps
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Hoovie
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it does sounds like a naughty virus to me, given a system restore fixed it . Interesting one 
Teabag - nice tip on the OSK - didn't know that one
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still looking round ,no one ever heard of that ,like Hoovie says prob a virus
glad your sorted anyway
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Glad it helped, but since when were "S and K" vowels lol
would deffo use Hijackthis to give it the once over,
and deffo run a virus scan.
as its certainly looking like the others say
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Hoovie
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| Teabag wrote: |
Glad it helped, but since when were "S and K" vowels lol
would deffo use Hijackthis to give it the once over,
and deffo run a virus scan.
as its certainly looking like the others say |
Teabag - interesting observation however, I have had problems with keys being knackered and having to enter the characters which are shagged - handy way to get round that is to do copy and paste for the specific characters needed - slow, but doable
One thought on this problem .... not sure what the keystrokes are, but I have thought of a potential circumstance where you could maybe have a stuck key on a keyboard that results in only vowels working 
If you want to type accented letters, like á,é,í,ó,ú etc, you need to hit a certain key and the letter together (I just used the ALT GR key) - now those accents only appear on vowels, so the other letters will not do anything - so possibly the ALT GR key was stuck if it is a technical problem
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