Thinkpad R51 keyboard won't work

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illestballa · #1 Post by **illestballa** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:18 pm

hey i don't know if anybody ever came accross this kinda problem but
i got the thinkpad r51, now i have no idea what happened to it but the keyboard won't work, i didn't installed any programs etc....only the mouse that is functioning at the moment
i restarted it ,kept on pressing f1 and matter fact all F keys and nothing seem to work
I have no idea if i lost the drivers for the keyboard or its just something else

Any help would be very appreciated it

christopher_wolf · #2 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:36 pm

Welcome to the Thinkpad Forums

It sounds as if the connector for the Keyboard has either gotten loose or is malfunctioning; if I remember correctly, the Mouse connector is seperate from the keyboard connector, that would explain why the mouse still works while the keyboard doesn't. You could try re-seating the keyboard connector.

illestballa · #3 Post by **illestballa** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:47 pm

thanx for the welcome

how do we re seat the connector, i heard there's 4 screws somewhere but really don't know much about it,
thanx again

#4 Post by **thePCxp** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:30 am

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-53172
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-53169

illestballa · #5 Post by **illestballa** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:17 am

hey i re seated the connector and still doesn't function at all, is there anything else that can be done???

christopher_wolf · #6 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:25 am

Hmmm; you could either send it in to IBM and have them repair it or order a Keyboard and do it yourself. The later option assuming, of course, that it actually is a problem with the keyboard and not something else.

Thinkpad R51 keyboard won't work

Thinkpad R51 keyboard won't work

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