Keyboard Mystery

[Unknown]

You get MANY wrong impressions.

Yes - because the majority of PC users do not "live on a farm far from
neighbors", as you put it.

Somehow I get the impression that you take pleasure in nit-picking other
people's replies. Your first objection to my initial reply was "That's
hard to do on a LAPTOP." When you realised that the laptop/desktop issue
was totally irrelevant, you changed direction and dreamed up the remote
farm scenario. It would be great to see a positive, useful and original
contribution from you, one that demonstrates the resourcefulness which you
claim you have.

 

[Alec S.]

Pegasus (MVP) wrote (in

If you can use the keyboard normally under a different user account then it
is extremely unlikely that the problem is caused by a hardware or driver
problem.

That’s true. Drivers have nothing to do with user accounts. It’s not like one
user can use driver A for a device and another user use driver B for the same
device.

If the keyboard does indeed work fine for all but one account, then that’s your
clue: there is something wrong with that account. I wouldn’t wipe it out and use
another account just yet though. Like Unknown said, check to see if there is an
app, service, etc. (auto)running in the admin account that is blocking/disabling
the keyboard.

 

[Gypsy]

Thanks folks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot lay my hands on a
PS2 or USB keyboard right now, but will rummage through the garage tomorrow
to find one and see whether the laptop works.

Ian, your tip about trying another user was PERFECT. I created another user
account and logged in with that, and the same keyboard worked normally - no
problem at all.

The question is why does the administrator log in render the keyboard
impotent, whereas when logged in as another user, there is no problem with
the same hardware? What 'adjustment' do I need to make with Windows to cure
this disease?

Any ideas, anybody? Thanks so much.

PS. Lem, I did go through the Lenovo/IBM site before I posted here.
Unfortunately it did not help me solve my problem. However, I had concluded
earlier that it could not be a hardware issue, since the keyboard allowed me
to enter the password for the Windows login, i.e. it was working fine.

 

[Gypsy]

KO, I stumbled to this post since I had exact same laptop keyboard problem
like yours aLike You, I was able to type in the password but then keyboard
would not respond after logging on. In my case, interestingly, my keyboard
would work normally when I rebooted to the to second OS (Dual boot OS). I
may have been able to fix it by logging on as a different user, but instead,
I went ahead and did a system restore to a week prior to the date that
keyboard suddunley stopped working. This fixed the problem for me and was
able to use keyboard by logging on as admiinistrator.
So, I believe, a virus blocked the interface between the keyboard hardware
and software?