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    HP DV8210 Keyboard Problem

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vash0523, Sep 5, 2008.

  1. vash0523

    vash0523 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Alright, my girlfriend's laptop is having some issues. After a restart, it boots up to the windows login screen, but the keyboard does not work. Most buttons elicit a loud beep, backspace types something in the password box, the M key seems to be the enter button, and the capslock works fine. All in all it doesnt work at all.

    So in an attempt to fix this, i tried to go into safe mode. Of course the F8 key doesn't work. Figuring I could probably get lucky and get whatever key actually did work as the F8 key, I just mashed as many keys as I could while the computer was starting up. This caused it to go into a Hard drive check. It says it was checking drive D for stability and had something about a FAT32 file. After that ran, the system booted up and the keyboard worked perfectly fine.

    I messed with some things and figured I had fixed the issue, so I rebooted only to find the same keyboard issue at the log in screen as before. My mashing buttons trick worked a second time and I am now logged back in. I highly doubt telling my girlfriend to mash buttons every time she starts up her computer will impress her the way I am going for so if anyone has any suggestions on where I should go from here, I would surely appreciate it.

    Thanks!
     
    vash0523, Sep 5, 2008
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