Dead keyboard

[MMD]

I'm having trouble with my aspire one language setting (it constantly switches from US/ UK) but, it also seems that now K,O,M,L,>,0 and a few other keys don't work. I had to borrow a computer because I couldn't type the email on that computer. I was told by the Canadian help desk that I have to wait till tomorrow and since this is a word processing computer it's kind of useless to me without it so i'm turning to my fellow forum members in hopes that i'll find a solution quicker.

 

[stiopa]

maybe try press FN + F11 and than you will disable Numlock
there is couple post`s about us/uk switching i edited my xorg with

Option "XkbDisable" "yes"
        Option "DisableModInDev" "yes"

and now its works

 

[MMD]

nope it did nothing I also lost a too (obviously I am using a different computer to type this). Is that the correct keys for num lock?

 

[stiopa]

numlock use the keys with blue numers i mean u,i,o,p,j,k,l,;,7,8,9
maybe page 50 in user manual will help you i dont have any other ideas,

 

[MMD]

I found a USB keyboard that plugs in and works so it has to be something hardware related right ? Does anyone know of a master reset button

 

[stiopa]

i didn`t hear anyting about master reset button in this device but you can try to make restore usb drive with other computer and restore cd

 

[MMD]

It turns out that it was a loose keyboard plug. I think that p and . only work sometimes or maybe my computer is under heavy load. More importantly I have the words fastest aspire one because from what I have read it only goes up to 1.5 but my system says it is a whole 2 gigs of ram even though it only has 1.5 of actual memory put in.

 

[MMD]

Actually it seems that the new updates are having a lot of issues with the keyboard. The acer tech support guy told me that the new updates are given a lot of people with their keyboard

 

[MMD]

Scratch that. I restored back to the original operating system and it died again.