Keyboard problems with my laptop

Sheep following random advice without even bothering to figure out what it means..

You are supposed to press a NumLock key. On laptops, this happens with some Fn-combination. Yes, some laptops may have the number lock under F9, some other laptops can have it somewhere else. In short, look for a Num Lock, Num Lk, NL or suchlike key and press it while holding Fn.

shift keys not working

both shift keys on my toshiba laptop do not work. can someone please help. i cannot type the question mark as you can see, because i do not have access to the shift key

Did you try any of the key combinations listed here?

more problems with my laptop keyboard!!!

my keyboard keeps typing "[" this on screen. I'm not typing it or in anyway touching the actual key but it keeps typing it. what's the core of this problem?? it happened in my previous laptop to. does it happen often on laptops???

please help meeeee...

Laptop Tech

you might have to replace the keyboard.

Take the laptop in for repair. A keyboard replacement is not difficult, but it is best done by a technician

big problem with my laptop.
whenever i hit certain keys, the cursor starts scrolling to the left. For example, whenever i try to type "mountain," this is what comes out: mntaniuo. Or when i go to type "youtube" i get ytbeuuo. the keys dont all do this, only the q w e r u i o p and the right shift keys cause this to happen. the scrolling stops once i hit an unaffected key. on top of this, the left arrow key doesnt work either. plz help ive cleaned my keyboard allready and ive had no change.

Try replacing the keyboard. Just how did you clean the keyboard? Did you remove it from the laptop, or disconnect the interface cable from the laptop to the motherboard?

The Reason for this accident is because, you are trying to adjust the the Brightness on your screen, you accidently hit Fn- F9 instead of Fn- F8.............. I recently had a problem with my laptop gateway 6750 and my keyboard was crazy I had half of my keyboard not working after many hours of searching and frustration I found the solution, and I found it here on techspot.com I was already thinking of buying a new laptop thanks techspot.com I thankx guys.:grinthumb

I had the same problem , I hope you've fix this problem, and its because you hit fn-then F9 on the keyboard, hit it back and your keyboard will be back to normal.

Attaching an alternate keyboard

If you ever attached an alternate regular pc keyboard with the numlock on, your laptop might then think the numlock is on even when you detach it, causing the 5 to type instead of the i.
Happened to me - I could not get the numlock to turn off.
Just attach the alternate keyboard again, turn off the numlock on the alternate keyboard, and then detach it. Your laptop keyboard should then start working again normally.

Gateway laptop different issue

Here is my issue:
If you press the "a" key and then the "n" key it will open a new window or a save as window. It does this in Office, Notepad, IE and windows journal. Also if you hold down the "a", "q" or the "z" they only type one not multiples.

Steps I have taken to correct the issue:

the OS has been restored
the keyboard has been replaced
no sticky keys
no toggle keys
no filter keys

Jumping T's

I have a keyboard problem!

When I type and use the T key, it takes what's ever after the T and jumps somewhere above that line [can be anywhere really] and starts the sentence I am writing there in the middle of another sentence. It's driving me nuts.

Here is an example of what happens if I don't watch the screen; and I can't do that cause I look at my keys

I have to shut off my computer to get it to copy and paste and I don't want to do that right now, so remind me I have some stuff on scrato [oh my God work; I get to the T in want and it jumps back between the O and P in scrapblog] thepblog I want finjumpr [again 2 more time in the process of typing one line; jumped from to up here, and then as I was telling you that; it jumped back again even more] er and it iaftsh [damn it

has anyone else had random letter jumping?

Hi!

Just a laptop user...looking for solutions, found something on this site that helped. Thanks!

Vinxi

So the problem I've been having has been making it almost impossible to type, and I write a lot and am a fast typist. (seems to be doing better now, but just in case...)

What happens is certain letters will cause right-click menus to randomly open, stopping me in the middle of whatever I'm typing. Sometimes, what I'm typing will just be deleted and I have to start over again. It seems to happen most with periods, "l," "m," shift, and "c," which appears to simply be jammed anyway.

*sigh*

I tried the hold Fn and press F9 option I saw here, and that seemed to help reduce the number of times this is happening, but even as I type now it's still a problem. Any thoughts would be helpful! Thanks.

Btw I have a Gateway.

Hi everyone I am new to this site. But I have a Toshiba A215 and when I hit the " s " key the "w" comes up with it also " sw " this does it on others keys but with different letters. The backspace does not work either. I have replace the keyboard hoping that would help. But it still has the same problem. Has anyone come accros the problem Thanks for any help you can give.

The keyboard may be dirty or it may need replacement

commas all over

i ho,p,e you understand my po,st..,.,
well,,o,bviously commas keep appearing on my screen even though im not touching it.
im havin' a hard time doing backspaces while typing specially when logging in to a site.
my laptop is an hp omnibook xe4100. another thing is that the touchpad wont click sometimes that i have to go with the button.
the comma thing happened before but for a day only cuz the next day it fixed itself. ha-ha.
i dunno how. This time is different cuz ,its, been occuring for almost a week now.

,,,good, thing ,c,omm,as right there d,o,nt ap,p,ear, as much as it of,ten app,ear!,
,like now! its ap,p,earing agai,n!,

Have you tried to plug in a usb keyborad?

Your keyboard might be dirty too. Did you ever spill any liquid or drop food on the keyboard?

Q,uestio,ns

yup, i tried p,l,ugging in a,, usb ke,yboa,rd. and the co,mmas still, ke,ep, o,n appe,aring.
and ive al,ready cl,eaned my l,a,p,,to,p, k,eyboa,rd.