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    Satellite P845t-S305 - F2 key press stuck/ sticky takes into BIOS without any usage of keyboard

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by crashnburn, Oct 1, 2016.

  1. crashnburn

    crashnburn Notebook Consultant

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    Satellite P845t-S305 - F2 key press stuck/ sticky takes into BIOS without any usage of keyboard

    This laptop belongs to an elder and they barely use it.

    I borrowed it to use until I get a new one, and I use it with an External USB Keyboard all the time.

    Been using it with external keyboard for few months, now all of a suddent without touch or use F2 key started getting stuck.

    I tested it extensively using Aquatestkey.exe (shows which key is stuck etc) to check between keyboards and the laptop key is stuck from the start of Boot.

    In fact it forces the laptop to go into BIOS settings. They only way to bypass it was using the F12 - Boot Menu and choosing my HDD.

    I have tried all things, long shutdown, restart etc. For some reason it seems the F2 circuit seems to have stuck somehow and its funny because it happened despite us not using the laptop keyboard at all.

    It wont allow me to use computer normally.

    Please tell what I can do from these points of view?

    1. Keyboard Cleaning

    2. Driver/ Hack to make laptop ignore the F2 key

    3. Any other ideas/ ways to fix this bug.
     
    crashnburn, Oct 1, 2016
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  2. OverTallman

    OverTallman Notebook Evangelist

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    How about carefully prying the F2 key off the keyboard and see if the clips are stuck or damaged?
     
    OverTallman, Oct 8, 2016
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