[AccessD] Further to keyboard problem

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 20:59:56 CST 2016


Windows 10.

It is a laptop which does not enter anything into the password field.  I 
have a Logitech USB RF Keyboard / mouse pair which I have used with this 
thing for as long as I have owned it.  The mouse works, the keyboard 
does not enter anything into the password field.  I have a second 
Logitech RF keyboard / trackpad combo.  The trackpad works, the keyboard 
does not enter anything into the password field.  I cannot use the tab 
key to cause the cursor to move on to the power off icon.

No matter which keyboard I try, it will not accept a keystroke to cause 
the pretty picture to go away and display the login screen. If I click 
on the screen with the mouse or the trackpad of the USB (RF) keyboards, 
I can get to the login screen but no key on the keyboards do anything.  
Arrow keys do not move the insertion pointer, tab doesn't move the 
insertion pointer on to the power off icon (for example).

The PC Power off key does turn the laptop off.  No other key on the 
entire keyboard does anything AFAICT.

Apparently to break into the BIOS one holds down the F2 key and presses 
the power button, holding F2 until the bios screen appears. That does 
not work.

On 3/5/2016 4:35 PM, James Button wrote:
> If it was a desktop I'd ask PS2 or USB keyboard.
>
> But will the keyboard will let you get to the BIOS.
> Or - will it let you get to a System reset process - not to run that, just to
> see if the keyboard is working
>
> Next test - if you boot from a restore CD - will that (Linux?) OS recognise
> keyboard input - assuming you have the system set to look to boot from CD (or
> USB) before trying the hard drive.
>
> And have you tried CTRL+ALT+DEL to see if that gets you to taskmanager and
> logon/closedown options
> And ... have you tried the icon at the bottom right corner to see if that shows
> anything different.
>
> You may need to do a recovery boot - to use safe mode and then after that,
> closedown and  just redo a normal boot.
>
> JimB
>   
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John
> Colby
> Sent: Saturday, March 5, 2016 9:17 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Further to keyboard problem
>
> Yes there is a "power" key on the keyboard which turns the computer off.
> It's as if the login screen itself just is not accepting keys.
> On Mar 5, 2016 11:59 AM, "Dan Waters" <df.waters at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> The power key?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
>> John Colby
>> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 8:56 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: [AccessD] Further to keyboard problem
>>
>> The power key on the keyboard shuts the computer down.
>>
>> WTFO?
>>
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