Studio 17 Keyboard problem (solved already)

That's really amazing,, got my laptop working after doing this

Thanks so much.

This keyboard issue popped up for me on my Studio 17...google search after hours of yankin my hair out and this worked beautifully. THANKS so much for the original post!  i was fearing a large repair bill.

Thank You!! so glad your post is there here! ...can't believe I didn't think of this myself 'cuz I know it works on a desktop if you just disconnect the keyboard and reboot. Thanks for your help!! Blessings to you!

THANK YOU!

I am recommissioning an older Inspiron that suffered a disk crash a while ago. In the mean time it seems the battery went dead. Reinstalling the system was a nightmare with the touchpad cursor jumping around and the keyboard variously accepting and rejecting keystrokes. I spent 2 days searching for variant drivers and adjusting any parameter that might affect the input devices.

Finally I stumbled on this thread and popped out the useless battery. And everything immediately worked like new!

Tip top, thanks this sorted my suddenly dead Studio 17 keyboard too!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Are you still getting emails about the Dell Studio Keyboard? Here it is 2/11 2013 and your advice is still saving lives! We were about to throw out the computer and your help fixed the problem! (Now the only question is, how long will it stay fixed??) Really appreciate you putting the word out there for the rest of us! Bless you! My keys were not working consistently, the back arrow would only work singly, the pad didn't work, and the numlock wouldn't go off  - same symptoms as others in this posting site. How weird! I ended up first spending about $85 getting Dell "help" over the phone, then we had to buy a mouse, then we tried to replace the keyboard, all of these things helped at first, but the symptoms came back. Bravo!

mburke

I have read every post here and so happy for all of those with success. However, I've tryed everything and crossed my heart, my fingers and prayed as I shut down, unplugged, etc. Still NO Success. I had multiple problems going on the past few days and have managed to fix all, including the lettered keys that were typing multiple letters mixed with numbers. I somehow can't manage to fix the numbered keys at least for now.  I fixed them once a couple days ago, but the next day they were doing the same thing again. I took the delete cover off the keyboard and put it back on this time and the letters starting working again, but I"m not really sure if that's what fixed it because I tryed so many things. LOL

Before I fixed the lettered keys the top and bottom row worked fine, while the middle row starting with the letter "A" (all except the letters g and h)  would give me a 2 to 3 letters, numbers and/or symbols such as letter k would come out like this k=8.  The letter A would give me `a1

I'm still having problems with the numbered keys except the numbers 3 and 9. 

This is what I get:

1  `1 (the letter a connected to it before fixed)

2 opens window help and support (the s did the same thing before fixed)

3 is fine

4 gives me 54

5 gives me 54

6 gives me 67

7 gives me 67

8 gives me =8 (the letter k use to connect to it as well)

Does anybody have any other suggestions after reading my exact problem?  

I do hope someone is still reading this thread after so many years.  By the way, the laptop is a Dell, using Windows 7.

Thanks!

DaGramma

I have read every post here and so happy for all of those with success. However, I've tryed everything and crossed my heart, my fingers and prayed as I shut down, unplugged, etc. Still NO Success. I had multiple problems going on the past few days and have managed to fix all, including the lettered keys that were typing multiple letters mixed with numbers. I somehow can't manage to fix the numbered keys at least for now.  I fixed them once a couple days ago, but the next day they were doing the same thing again. I took the delete cover off the keyboard and put it back on this time and the letters starting working again, but I"m not really sure if that's what fixed it because I tryed so many things. LOL

Before I fixed the lettered keys the top and bottom row worked fine, while the middle row starting with the letter "A" (all except the letters g and h)  would give me a 2 to 3 letters, numbers and/or symbols such as letter k would come out like this k=8.  The letter A would give me `a1

I'm still having problems with the numbered keys except the numbers 3 and 9. 

This is what I get:

1  `1 (the letter a connected to it before fixed)

2 opens window help and support (the s did the same thing before fixed)

3 is fine

4 gives me 54

5 gives me 54

6 gives me 67

7 gives me 67

8 gives me =8 (the letter k use to connect to it as well)

Does anybody have any other suggestions after reading my exact problem?  

I do hope someone is still reading this thread after so many years.  By the way, the laptop is a Dell, using Windows 7.

Thanks!

DaGramma

Great tip. I just rant into this issue after 2 years of buying this laptop. 

Guess what, this still works. Worked and fixed the keyboard right away. 

Thanks again for the tip.

Looks like nearly 4 years since your post.  Very glad I found it.  My numeric keypad suddenly refused to output numbers.  No matter if  NumLk was on or off, it acted like it was off.   the "/*-+ and enter keys worked, but 2468 acted like arrow keys, and the rest were dead.  Very frustrating.  I saddled myself with a heavy 17" partly because I had to have the numeric keypad. 

I delayed trying to "drain the flea power" when I found this forum because I was an hour into some lengthy video conversions. I tried what BLACK_ROSES said, unplugged AC power, and Voilà! I had numbers again.  Now with power plugged back in, everything is just fine.

Thank you  to all who contributed to this forum.

Oh, and "abgesicherter Modus" means secured, and refers to the English Win OS  "safe mode"  -  of no use in this case

I just wanted to thank you for posting this about the "flea power". I followed your instructions to a tee and voila my keyboard is working again. Being computer illiterate you have saved me money and again, I thank you!!!!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

My life is on this box and when I came down this morning to begin work, no keyboard. Your post saved me! Worked like a charm and I'm back up and running again. You really are a life saver! May you always have a fair wind and a following sea!

Wow add my name to the list of thankful people for this post. 

I was trying to reinstall windows 7 from a boot USB I made with microsoft's own USB boot tool and it went horribly awry, said it was missing the install.wim file so I restarted just to boot normally but found my keyboard and biometric fingerprint reader both not working. The mouse worked fine so I was able to enable onscreen keyboard and get into the actual OS which was fine. Uninstalled keyboard driver several times but nothing, then on the second reboot mouse stopped working too!

found this on ipad and just unplugged, pulled out battery, waited 2 minutes, rebooted and all seems to be fine now. 

I flashed bios this morning from A05 to A09 as I've noticed high temps so am still a little worried that might be causing problem but I think it was my trying to boot from usb and then that failing. 

But this simple power off and unplug seems to have worked. 

Thanks!

I read in this forum that you could try turning the computer off. Wait at least a minute. Then hold the power button down for a minute. It worked! Now my keys are acting normal again. I have no idea why but am grateful to this forum and hope this helps someone else!