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February 9th, 2006 18:00
FN key doesn't work full
Hello,
I have an Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop.
Since I formatted my pc, the FN key doesn't work complete.
Some keys, (eg for my num pad, my ctrl/lcd key) works fin, but eg for open my cd drive... No action.
(I can open my cd drive to puch the button on the drive itselfs, but not via the keyboard shortcut fn + F8).
Somebody that knowns this problem and can/will help me?
Thx!
I have an Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop.
Since I formatted my pc, the FN key doesn't work complete.
Some keys, (eg for my num pad, my ctrl/lcd key) works fin, but eg for open my cd drive... No action.
(I can open my cd drive to puch the button on the drive itselfs, but not via the keyboard shortcut fn + F8).
Somebody that knowns this problem and can/will help me?
Thx!
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neuromed
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February 9th, 2006 21:00
qdlegaspi
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February 10th, 2006 01:00
Internetfreakz
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February 10th, 2006 12:00
No I didn't download special things last few days...
And on my system, it isn't only the FN + F10 key, but also the FN + ESC, Pause, Ins etc. In other words: the F-keys works fine (except the F10 then) but the 'other FN keys' didn't
qdlegaspi
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February 20th, 2006 23:00
frqs
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April 3rd, 2006 19:00
I have a brand new Inspiron 6000 with QuickSet installed and I got the same issue with the FN-F10 key not opening the CD/ROM drive. It appears that Dell has changed their way to manage function keys. Where they used to be managed through the BIOS (such as my old Inspiron 4000), they now are managed through the Windows application QuickSet. However, QuickSet is conflicting with another process "Ati HotKey Poller" which also tries to program the function keys.
I had to disable the ATI HotKey Poller process through the Processes window and that allowed QuickSet to take control of the Function keys. Of course, that is because I do not use the ATI hotkeys functions.