pangolin laptop keyboard problem

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#1 January 21, 2009

Yesterday I noticed that the following letters on the keyboard (when typed), produce numbers instead of letters:

I am typing this on a USB connected keyboard (from my daughter's pc). When I type uiopjklm on the laptop keyboard, I get the following (I will now switch over to typing on the laptop keyboard): 456*1230

(back to USB keyboard) Do I have a hardware problem? Do I need to take apart the keyboard assy, and clean underneath the keys?

Thanks for any advice!

#2 January 21, 2009

Your Num-Lock is on :P

#3 January 21, 2009

Yep, Press Fn-NumLk

The buttons are found on the bottom left and the top right. Quite the hard key combo on the pangolin. Some, not so hard....like most Toshibas:(