keyboard isn't working

Anselm

please help . im having to use onscreen keyboard with the mouse as actual keyboard isn't working, anybody kmow what ive done?

edit to add I have hp pavilion g6

kwikbreaks

Have you tried the obvious - reseat cable and reboot PC? If wireless replaced the battery and tried to resynced it?

Anselm

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Have you tried the obvious - reseat cable and reboot PC? If wireless replaced the battery and tried to resynced it?

reseat cable? resync what? yes turned on and off


eta took battery out still same

its a laptop

Anselm

Ok did a hard reset to fix it after a little googling.
For future problem solving:

-disconnect power adaptor;
-disconnect battery;
-hold down power button for atleast 20 seconds.

cheers

chewynut

Glad to hear you've fixed it, OP. Where would we be without Google?

For future reference, I once thought I'd broke my laptop keyboard because it wouldn't work at all. I didn't have a USB mouse either.

It turned out I'd managed to hit the tiny keyboard lock button that I'd never noticed before. Mine is on the black strip between my space bar and touch pad.

closed

holding down the power button for 6 seconds would have done the same

have you backed up recently?

Anselm

chewynut wrote: »

Glad to hear you've fixed it, OP. Where would we be without Google?

For future reference, I once thought I'd broke my laptop keyboard because it wouldn't work at all. I didn't have a USB mouse either.

It turned out I'd managed to hit the tiny keyboard lock button that I'd never noticed before. Mine is on the black strip between my space bar and touch pad.

Bleurgh don't get me started on that button!!:mad: I actually had to turn off my laptop today to undo that button. And shutting down on windows 8 was a complete mystery to me until today :rotfl:

closed wrote: »

holding down the power button for 6 seconds would have done the same

have you backed up recently?

Maybe I didn't hold it long enough then.

Would a backup save steam games I've downloaded?

closed

I meant that you don't have to remove battery etc, holding down the button long enough does the same thing, not that it matters

a disk image backup would save everything http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx