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October 7th, 2006 21:00

locked keypad

help please...somehow, one of my kids inadvertantly did something to lock the keypad (built-in) on my inspirion. how do I unlock?

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October 7th, 2006 21:00

Sounds like they set a password - call Dell.

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October 7th, 2006 22:00

There should be a little box on the bottom right corner toolbar. The box should say Touchpad or something like that.. It looks like a little mini screen. Double click it and it should bring up all the pointer options and one of those is to disable the touchpad. (if its disabled then the icon picture should be a box with a red X through it)

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October 8th, 2006 01:00

thanks for the reply and assistance. the touchpad is actually functioning properly...it's the keypad that seems to be locked up. I can't type anything or use any of the keys, etc. Is that the same thing? It's a mystery...

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October 9th, 2006 07:00

the keyboard connector ribbon under the keyboard was proly popped out... Look in the online manuals to find out how to take out your keyboard , and re-set the ribbon. after that it should work fine again.

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October 30th, 2011 22:00

Did you ever get this figured out?  Our kids just did the same thing to my wife's laptop and we still can't figure out what happened. 

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