no numbers

[Rick Bowers]

At Friday 1/11/2008 10:39 PM, you wrote:

>On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:57 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 1/11/08, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 16:44 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > > On 1/11/08, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:38 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > > > > Perhaps i'm just slow, but I've yet to see an actual description of
> > > > > > what exactly is wrong.  Is the numlock light not coming on (and the
> > > > > > numbers fail to work), or is the light coming on and the 
> numbers dont'
> > > > > > work?
> > > > > Yup, that's about the ony thing I felt could go wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Bob, please answer my question.
> > >
> > > With Num Lock button glowing threre is no response to the number
> > > buttons.  The Enter key works.  I checked the BIOS and the number pad is
> > > Enabled.  Doesn't work when light is off, too.
> >
> > If the numlock light is on, but the keys don't' work, then the
> > keyboard is busted.
>Probably is, but there are 18 extra chrome buttons across the top &
>I thought some combination of something falling on the keyboard had
>buggered it up, Maybe?  Thanks,
>Bob

That is a possibility. The old Gateway keyboards were programmable. 
As you said, you may have hit a sequence of keys to modify the 
behavior of the keyboard. Or, as Lonnie stated, the keyboard may be broken.

Do  you have any documentation on your keyboard and its' extra keys? 
Can you get it online?

I have several spare keyboards floating around. But, even thought 
they're barely used and practically new, they use the old DIN plugs 
(pre-PS/2). If they'll work for you, I'll send you a few.

~Rick

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