T-61 Volume - Mute Buttons

[Rockie-1]

Made the mistake of plugging my T-61 into a docking station that had an IBM Rapid Access keyboard attached.

Can no longer use the Volume Up/Down Mute buttons, they bring up the Rapid Restore panel.

Removed the Rapid Access Keyboard driver but these buttons still don't work.

Reinstalled: ACPI Driver, HotKey Driver and Video Driver, still can't get the buttons to work.

This is making me crazy, anyone have any ideas?

Windows XP, the installed Keyboard driver is an MS driver dated 7-1/2001.

Thanks for any possible solutions.

[basketb]

No solution, just a question: what is a "Rapid Restore keyboard"?

[Rockie-1]

Like I said, this bug is making me crazy...

Of course, it is an "IBM Rapid Access Keyboard".

Thanks for the question..

[basketb]

Just guessing (as I don't have such a fancy keyboard nor use rapid restore): how about reinstalling the audio driver? Or uninstalling the keyboard driver and let the system reload it the next time the system boots?

[Rockie-1]

I did reinstall the Audio Driver ;-(

Good idea about deleting the Keyboard and allowing Plug & Play to find it...

I'll try that tonight after I clone the hard drive...

Thanks.....

[Rockie-1]

Tonight I deleted the old keyboard driver and let Plug & Play find the keyboard.

Same problem...

Then I installed a hard drive - operating system that was not exposed to the IBM Rapid Access Keyboard.

The volume up-down and mute buttons worked fine.

So, something in the load is causing this and I'm not sure what else there is to reload..

Thanks..

[Nolonemo]

Do you have an old enough XP restore point you can roll back to before you used the keyboard that seems to be the culprit?

[Rockie-1]

"Do you have an old enough XP restore point you can roll back to before you used the keyboard that seems to be the culprit?"

Unfortunately, no don't have a Restore Point that's old enough.

I think it's time to reload the operating system and start over..

Thanks..