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[Knives]

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[Bobtheduck]

EDIT *oops* nevermind...

Hmm... That is weird... Is your Keyboard USB or PS/2, or even older than that? Maybe the connection is bad, or maybe you spilled something on the keyboard. Or maybe you have a virus that randomly changes the letters you type... If it's PS/2, try blowing on the connection... Who knows, maybe it will work (I fixed my mouse buttons on my optical mouse by blowing into the thing, so you never know... Just make sure you keep it dry as possible...)

If it's a virus, well... I don't know what to do... Get some anti-virus software I guess, but if you can't type, that could prove difficult.

Provided it isn't a laptop or similar keyboard, you can also try prying the keys off one by one and cleaning it... Be sure to put each one back before moving onto the next one, otherwise you may lose them... Also, unplug it before you pry the keys off, just to be safe... And don't touch the connectors, I'd guess... Which would be very difficult on a normal keyboard, which is why I said not to do it on a laptop.

[ShiroiHikari]

Do you use a laptop? If so, try turning off the Num Lock.

[Bobtheduck]

Does that really happen on laptops? That's annoying... Those are the kind of nonsense "features" I expect from an adobe program or a Macintosh (haha) Is there any real reason for that? If it weren't for the fact I don't trust trying to pry off laptop keys, i'd permanently remove the num lock if that were the case... ON my keyboard, i permanently removed the windows keys... My life is much simpler now. I may remove caps lock soon, too... (working with illustrator, I reach for shift a lot, and get caps lock... Yeah, you can tell how that would get annoying)

if you're wondering how I could dare bash Adobe, let's just say illustrator is very finicky and there are lots of rules to remember... of course, it's nowhere near as finicky as 3ds max... man, so many ways to ruin your models... stack order, obscure modifier settings, seemingly duplicate functions that are actually very different (such as right click convert to editable mesh, and the "edit mesh" modifier) It takes a good memory to become a graphic designer...

[ShiroiHikari]

The thing with Num Lock and laptop keyboards is when Num Lock is on, some letters turn into numbers. Very irritating.

[Kaligraphic]

The basic idea is to give laptop users some way to quickly enter numbers, since the average laptop does not have room for a dedicated keypad. As this is the only effect of num lock on a laptop, and given that the num lock key is difficult to hit by accident (and is often a fn-key combo, even), it is not commonly a problem, unless you don't know that this is the standard behaviour.

[Mithrandir]

That's correct. It allows the user to have a "ten-key" connected keypad. It's VERY useful for those of us who use them, but not so much for other people, I guess.

[Knives]

Ok guys. I got it fixed. I had a normal laptop keyboard, but when I plugged in the PS/2 keyboard into it, it started working again. It might have been num-lock, but if it was, it was a combination, not just the button num lock because I tried hitting num-lock, and nothing happened.

[Mithrandir]

See if there is a "numlock" function on the laptop keyboard. That's usually what does it.

Glad it's fixed!