R51 Blue + F3 & F4 keys do not work

[Mike Luther]

I have a newish R51 with the 'latest' BIOS and a new motherboard from IBM service. Although it is OS/2 completely equipped now and all the other Blue + function keys work for video and audio, the FN plu F4 key won't put it to sleep, for example, as does my completely functional R40.

I can boot it to an OS/2 command line status with carefully re-worked OS/2 utility diskettes from an attached USB floppy diskette plug in device. With that same device I can also boot it to a DOS diskette. In neither instance do the FN + F4 or F3 keys work at all. Thus I suspect this has nothing to do with OS/2 whatever.

I've carefully looked at the BIOS settings which can be reached from the F12 key at start time. There is nothing there which looks like I could change which would enable this feature, but maybe I don't realize at what I'm looking. As far as I can see from what little I know about this at the moment, nothing in the recovery scenario or factory furnished WIN XP world has anything to do with the basic issues here. But maybe I just don't know ..

Can anyone suggest anything that would help? This is the sole left support issue in a very complicated full OS/2 MCP2 latest fixpack everything on this Thinkpad with everything else from audio to networking, PCI card modem USB 2.0 hard disk clone and restore .. but not Wi-Fi tried .. working beautifully on OS/2. Without this APM and so on plus the battery status level on the WPS won't display, so seems.

Thanks!

[IBM Thinkpad]

I have a newish R51 with the 'latest' BIOS and a new motherboard from IBM service. Although it is OS/2 completely equipped now and all the other Blue + function keys work for video and audio, the FN plu F4 key won't put it to sleep, for example, as does my completely functional R40.

I can boot it to an OS/2 command line status with carefully re-worked OS/2 utility diskettes from an attached USB floppy diskette plug in device. With that same device I can also boot it to a DOS diskette. In neither instance do the FN + F4 or F3 keys work at all. Thus I suspect this has nothing to do with OS/2 whatever.

I've carefully looked at the BIOS settings which can be reached from the F12 key at start time. There is nothing there which looks like I could change which would enable this feature, but maybe I don't realize at what I'm looking. As far as I can see from what little I know about this at the moment, nothing in the recovery scenario or factory furnished WIN XP world has anything to do with the basic issues here. But maybe I just don't know ..

Can anyone suggest anything that would help? This is the sole left support issue in a very complicated full OS/2 MCP2 latest fixpack everything on this Thinkpad with everything else from audio to networking, PCI card modem USB 2.0 hard disk clone and restore .. but not Wi-Fi tried .. working beautifully on OS/2. Without this APM and so on plus the battery status level on the WPS won't display, so seems.

Thanks!

Run PC doctor and test out your keyboard.

[IBM Thinkpad]

If really cannot use keyboard, then consider using an external one.