Re: Keyboard Oddity - No Numpad

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From: David Shields (WaveyDavey_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:20 +0000

Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
> David Shields wrote:
>
>>I'm sure this is probably a dumb question, but I really have never
>>seen this before and I'm stumped. I have a clint with an XP Pro box,
>>and numlock doesn't enable the num keypad. These is a soft beep
>>(different tones for on and off), the led goes on but numlock still
>>does nothing. I'm *sure* its software related (XP or 3rd party), as
>>the kb works fine on other machines.
>>Any Ideas ?
>>
>>WaveyDavey
>
>
>
> And is it enabled in the BIOS?
Oh yeah - its not hardware. I used a knoppix boot cd to bring the
machine up to specifically test that and the numpad worked just fine.
Its just on this installation of XP.

WaveyDavey

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