[Novalug] resetting keyboard

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Mon Jul 22 08:05:02 EDT 2013


Unplug and replug the keyboard.
On Jul 21, 2013 7:31 PM, "Ed James" <edward.james@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nino,
>
>    Longshot, but The 'Net claims a bunch of people "fixed" it by
> holding down both shift keys simultaneously.  As to the cause,
> I'd take a wild guess that you hit some kind of ESC-sequence,
> but no clue what.
>
>   Research said some people had the problem with some Dell
> model using PS/2 keyboards, but not USB keyboards.  No clue
> why/how.  But swapping keyboards and then un-swapping
> them might yield a clue if the keyboard is at fault, or
> "something else".
>
>   There was also chatter about "sticky key" settings but it
> didn't make sense to me as something that would cause
> your particular problem.
>
> Ed James
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Nino Pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> for some unknown reason just now my keyboard got into a weird
>> all-capital mode, and for an equally unknown reason it got
>> out of it shortly thereafter (so that I can send an email to
>> the assembled experts and figure out what's going on).
>>
>> I suspect that I touched a few keys in the upper left hand
>> of the keyboard, but which one(s)?
>> ...
>>
>> Any idea what makes this happen or maybe more importantly,
>> how to reset the keyboard back to where it needs to be?...
>>
>
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