[ockertyron]

Hello Everyone, this is my first post and i hope someone can help.

My brother in law gave me a Dell Latitude D400 (which i am giving to my daughter for Xmas) yes, times are tough.

The laptop was in perfect condition apart from a useless hard drive which i had to replace.

I installed the new hard drive, which already had XP on it (out of a sony Vaio)

Everything works great, yes my Dell thinks its a Vaio, but its all great apart from the keyboard.

most keys are working but the cursers, the enter key, delete key and a few others are not.

I am thinking that this has something to do with the drivers (of which there are still a few vaio ones on the system) I have tried to find a keyboard driver at Dell, but i have downloaded everything and i still have the keyboard problem.

My brother in law swears the keyboard is not broken, so if anyone out there can suggest something, that would be great.

I can just about give my daughter a second hand laptop for xmas, but not one with a dodgy keyboard!!!!!!!

Thanks.

[serverguy]

You should have really done a clean install of XP from disk.

It may still be possible though. Download all the drivers for the Dell and install them. Especially the motherboard ones.

[YRTNEG]

try the harddrive on something else to see if its just the drivers there may be a problem with your keyboard

[ockertyron]

Hello, Thanks very much for your input, i have done a clean install and that has removed all traces of Vaio.

I have downloaded many drivers and the laptop is now working at 99%, there are still a couple of keys on the keyboard which are not great, but funnily enough they work on occasion and they work when i press shift down first.

Perhaps this means i need to replace the keyboard?

I will keep trying but its almost tip top so less of a problem now.

If anyone has any other ideas, i would still love to hear them!!

Thanks again.

[serverguy]

If they work on occasion, it would suggest the keyboard is somewhat faulty.

But as long as the required keys work, then it should make a good present for someone :)

What keys exactly don't work?

[ockertyron]

The keys are the enter key (i know, useful) and the delete!

o key is occasionally broken, i think i will get a can of compressed air and give all the keys a blast, i guess its possible there is dust or dirt under there?

anyway, she will love it and i can replace the keyboard at a later date!

[Hybr!d]

Sounds like a faulty keyboard to me.

[trapweed]

Cleaning the keyboard might help if it's just dust or something that's messing up the contacts. Otherwise, it sounds like the keyboard is definitely faulty.