The keyboard of my laptop

The keyboard of my laptop is fucked. I plugged in a keyboard, and now when I type on the plugged in keyboard things work fine, but when I type on my laptop keyboard I get numbers for certain letters. Here goes: ” get n40bers f6r certa5n 3etters.”

I’m running Win XP on a Compaq Presario 700. I have 2 accounts on my laptop, the problem doesn’t occur on the other account (in Win XP you can have multiple logins, each with its own desktop preferences and such). I couldn’t find any tips on the compaq site… anyone has an idea?

7 Responses to “The keyboard of my laptop”

  1. Eric Scheid Says:

    u=4, m=0, o=6, i=5, l=3 …

    I bet other keys behave like this…

    789 = 789
    uio = 456
    jkl = 123
    m = 0

    look familiar?

  2. PeterV Says:

    Fixed: press the function key (bottom right) and the NUmLock key together.

    http://communities.compaq.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=121&RPAGEID=135&HOID=5079000000080000003C5A0100&UCATEGORY_0=_223_%24_12_&UCATEGORY_S=0

  3. inzuju Says:

    could anyone tell me where I can obtain an diagram with the function of the f keys for a presario 700

  4. reagan Says:

    man, i’m glad you had this problem too or i would never have figured it out!

  5. reagan Says:

    man, i’m glad you had this problem too or i would never have figured it out!

  6. Jennie Says:

    Hi Peter
    Good golly, this goes back to ‘02. I just had this happen on my old laptop and it was driving me nuts. I searched and searched google and finally found you. Thank you so much for such a simple answer. It worked and I couldn’t be happier.
    Thanks again

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