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by jennifer.gardner

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Hi!

I have a Latitude Cpi laptop, and the NumLock lights up everytime it's booted. In the BIOS, the num lock is disabled, but this is for external keyboards anyway (which I am not using). The causes problems, because when people try to enter the password for this system, they don't realize that the j is 1, k is 2, etc. Has anyone come across this before? I didn't see an option to reset the BIOS defaults. Perhaps a flash is in order?

Many thanks!

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by sgt_shultz

nice work on the flash. i would have tried that also. only thing that comes to my mind is maybe a programmable keyboard...dunno

by jennifer.gardner

I have a couple other laptops of the same model, and they don't do this. This leads me to believe that there's a setting somewhere... I would reformat the machine, but if it's a BIOS setting (that I can't see for whatever reason) that would be a waste of my time.

by jadams59

Hold down the FN Key (Ususally blue or green letters) and press the NUM LOC key. That turns the Number Lock on and off. Some laptop Keys have dual purpose, just find the key with fn or FN on it and the Num loc Key. I'm not sure on the Latatude which kets they are.

by jennifer.gardner

I am able to turn the num lock off. I'm trying to prevent it from automatically turning on every time the laptop is booted. Thanks anyway!

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