# What's wrong with my keyboard?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057 "2011-02-20T23:49:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057/1 "2011-02-20T23:49:47Z")

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I have a Fujitsu notebook that was working fine till all of a sudden the keyboard went haywire. Some letter keys type numbers. This is what the alphabet looks like: **a b c d e f g h 5 1 2 3 0 n 6 p q 4 s t 4 v x y z** Scanned for virus or malware. None found. Nothing was spilled or dropped on the keys. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057/2 "2011-02-20T23:51:43Z")

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You have the ten key function turned on. Hit the function key (FN) and F11 together. It should fix things.

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057/3 "2011-02-21T00:04:26Z")

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> [@TravisFromOR](#):
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> You have the ten key function turned on. Hit the function key (FN) and F11 together. It should fix things.

Just tried it. No change. ☹

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**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057/4 "2011-02-21T00:08:57Z")

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Try SHIFT+Number Lock

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-keyboard/572057/5 "2011-02-21T00:10:48Z")

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> [@TravisFromOR](#):
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> Try SHIFT+Number Lock

Yay! Success! Thank you, thank you, thank you!