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From: LAS on 24 Jun 2010 20:55
I unhooked my laptop (Dell Inspiron 730) from all peripherals, electricity
and internet and worked on it for a while. When I hooked it back up I found
that when I typed numbers I got ! for 1 and $ for 4, etc. I played around a
lot with num lock, function/num lock, caps lock, etc., etc. I finally
detemined that if I booted without the port replicator (Targus) plugged in,
I got the numbers OK, but if I plugged in the port replicator I immediately
got the problem, even when no peripherals were plugged into the port
replicator. Here is what I have tried.

Working OK - Plug in port replicator with no peripherals in top USB port>
##> problem appears> If CAPS LOCK light is on< i get lower case> IF CAPS
LOCK LIGHT IS OFF< I GET UPPER CASE>

Unplug port replicator. Problem goes away. (??)

Working OK. Plug in port replicatgor with no peripherals in bottom USB
port. # problem returns> just like described above> in addition to
upper?lower case problem on non_alphabetic keys< back arrow highlights
everything>

Unplug port replicator - problem goes away.

Any suggestions? It's not reasonable to suspect hardware problems with the
port replicator, as it was working fine til I unplugged everything. It was
just sitting on the table til I plugged stuff back in again.

If this is too "software" for this hardware forum, could you direct me
somewhere else?

TIA
LAS


From: LAS on 26 Jun 2010 23:10
I was advised to go to control panel/system/hardware/device manager and
uninstall my keyboard. It gets re-installed on re-boot. That seemed to do
the trick.

"LAS" <FakeMail(a)Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I unhooked my laptop (Dell Inspiron 730) from all peripherals, electricity
>and internet and worked on it for a while. When I hooked it back up I
>found that when I typed numbers I got ! for 1 and $ for 4, etc. I played
>around a lot with num lock, function/num lock, caps lock, etc., etc. I
>finally detemined that if I booted without the port replicator (Targus)
>plugged in, I got the numbers OK, but if I plugged in the port replicator I
>immediately got the problem, even when no peripherals were plugged into the
>port replicator. Here is what I have tried.
>
> Working OK - Plug in port replicator with no peripherals in top USB port>
> ##> problem appears> If CAPS LOCK light is on< i get lower case> IF CAPS
> LOCK LIGHT IS OFF< I GET UPPER CASE>
>
> Unplug port replicator. Problem goes away. (??)
>
> Working OK. Plug in port replicatgor with no peripherals in bottom USB
> port. # problem returns> just like described above> in addition to
> upper?lower case problem on non_alphabetic keys< back arrow highlights
> everything>
>
> Unplug port replicator - problem goes away.
>
> Any suggestions? It's not reasonable to suspect hardware problems with
> the port replicator, as it was working fine til I unplugged everything.
> It was just sitting on the table til I plugged stuff back in again.
>
> If this is too "software" for this hardware forum, could you direct me
> somewhere else?
>
> TIA
> LAS
>


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