I have a new Dell Laptop and I want to use an external keyboard. I have converted the Laptop to Brazil Potugues and I want to use a Portugues Keyboard. Now when I connect it via USB, the three ^Lock^ lights start flashing but the keyboard will not work and there is no selection for a Portugeus keyboard in the Windows
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I have a Dell and my keyboard is in pretty bad shape. Some keys are sticky and the key covers (not sure what they are called) are missing making it difficult to type. Are there refurbished ones that would work? Is changing out a keyboard a hard thing to do? Will a generic keyboard work or would it have to be a Dell?
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I had left my computer on when i left town for a day. When i was back the computer was at the windows login screen. I am assuming that at some point while i was gone an automatic windows upate may have been installed which forced the computer to reboot. the update may have messed up my keyboard drivers.
any help would be greatly appreciated as at this point im stuck!!!! thanks in advance
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I have previously used a USB card reader and external hard drive on both ports without any problems but now when I connect any device nothing at all happens.
Got a user who has a Acer 5100-3583 notebook with windows XP, the keyboard and touchpad are unresponsive after multiple reboots and standard trouble shooting yield no results.? The unit is only 14 months old and out of warranty.
Any clues?
It will read from DVD-ROM drive as it reads a DVD movie when inserted.
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got a toshiba laptop approximatley 3 years old. His keyboard is 101/102 and working correctly in the control panal, however, the @ sign is in the wrong place as is the " and i can't find the sign at all, i'm sure we used to move these at work for a joke but i can't find out how to do it. Just to clarify the print on the buttons of the keyboard isn't what it type when you press the buttons @ = shift 2 " = shift 'if i go into character maps it shows them in the above places but i can't amend
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quality of AcomData External HD? Also, is this a well established company? Any info as to how this brand compares to a Seagate External HD?
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This is strange because the keyboard works in the BIOS.
My friends keyboard is not working. When she turns the computer on no lights come up on the keyboard. Have tried another keyboard and still the same. Unable to get into the computer to check bios etc as there is a password on the account.
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However the drives is functioning properly in my laptop and on my freind's desktop as well....so seems like my drive's alrite.I can easily use 4gb pen drive and 30gb ipod on my desktop but not my external drive.
way for me to install XP from an external DVD - USB drive I have no internal CD-ROM and need to get XP onto this machine somehow.
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