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    Inspiron 6000 Keyboard Drivers

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by MdSalih, Sep 20, 2005.

  1. MdSalih

    MdSalih Notebook Enthusiast

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    Recently bought an Inspiron 6000. First thing I did was make a backup of all the important drivers and other data on hard drive and format and install a fresh copy of Windows XP MCE 2005.

    I was able to reinstall all drivers and get all hardware working correctly within 10 mins after reinstalling the OS.

    However, the keyboard does not want to work properly. Some of the keyboatd "Function" keys do not work and the layout is a little messed up, I can't get a backslash and various keys are not what they say on the keyboard. I have messed with the keyboard settings in the control panel, flicking from US to UK - neither of which have produced a viable solution. (Laptop was bought from Dell USA).

    I've searched and scoured the dell support site with no avail. Please can someone point me in the right direction in regards to this or give me a solution.

    Thank you in advance.

    MdSalih`
     
    MdSalih, Sep 20, 2005
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Well, there are no keyboard drivers - it is just recognized.

    Check your language settings, change those and you should be good. ;)
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Sep 20, 2005
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  3. MdSalih

    MdSalih Notebook Enthusiast

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    How can I get the function eys working correctly after my format reinstall? the FN + F10 is ment to eject cd tray.. it doesn't anymore.. fn + F3 should show battery status... it doesn't... and various other ones... any ideas how to get these working again?

    MdSalih
     
    MdSalih, Sep 25, 2005
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  4. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    download Dell's quickset. You can find it on Dell's drivers website under applications. You must have Quickset running in order for some of the fn functions including the battery meter.

    I just tried it out and that's how I discovered it. Without quickset runnin FN+f2 was the only that would work. With quickset running, all of the FN functions would work.

    SG
     
    Amber, Sep 25, 2005
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    AZRon Newbie

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    Thank you -- you just restored my sanity!

    I had searched the Dell site and found no such information. Found this thread via a Google search for:

    dell "battery status" f3

    (third page of the results), and now my (Dell proprietary) Fn functions are working again! (I'm just trying to bump this thread up, it was much more useful than the URLs that Google showed on the first two pages.)

    Ron
     
    AZRon, Feb 22, 2007
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