I have a Vaio notebook and the letters are now typing numbers and symbols. Any ideas how to reset?
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sounds like the numlock was pressed by mistake. or else, the keyboard setting was changed to a foreign language. either way, reboot the machine. Access the CMOS during POST (F10, Del, or whatever depending on hardware). under extended options, select keyboard, change back to US configuration, save settings, reboot, all is well.
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Type 20ac, and then press ALT+X \n\nI think... try it! Good luck
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As well as the other answers...\n It sounds like one or more keys on the laptop are being\nshorted out, and the problem is getting worse. I have had this\nhappen on a few keyboards, for various reasons. \n If you can go to the Compaq website and find how to remove the keyboard, often just releasing two or more slid buttons \nat top or botom, or sliding keyboard up or down, and gently lifting, to expose a ribbon cable, which you usually snap out a wedge release and pull out cable, etc.\n THEN, you can examine the keyboard, or plug in an external\nkeyboard, without interference from the "suspect" keyboard.\nSince the touchpad, and the self-suspend mode are also\nmalfunctioning ( these may be keyboard controlled ! ), there\nmay be a larger problem with the I/O connctor from the laptop top, to the motherboard. I suspect mechanical problems. Could the keyboard have been squished, and had buttons pressed too hard, which had caused contacts to \ntouch at random? There is a number of keyboard -design peculiarities I have run across with DRY contamination- whereby the traces on the circuitboard itself, particularly\nsilver painted ( probably multi process electroplating )\nor black carbon paint traces, will produce a fine powder,\nwhich drifts across the circuitboard, gradually shorting the\ntraces, causing random inputs. This dry silver, or black powder can be virtually invisible to the naked eye, and must\nbe cleaned off with a damp cloth, gently... It is the exact same powder that shorts out many remote controls for TV etc. and shorts out many game pads...\n Based on the behaviour of the keyboard, and the fact that nothing is wet, this would be my first bet.\n Laptop keyboards are "one-of a-kind " and there are no rules, as manufacturers boldly try every new idea to make them thinner and lighter... \n I dont think that the keys themselves are at fault, and that you have to look at the actual traces UNDER the keys...\nIt is a bit difficult, and you must proceed slowly and carefully...\n With ordinary Desktop keyboards, my advice on this ANSWER \nforum, is as follows... and some of the same advice still applies...\n\nMost of the answers already have some merit.\nI have a couple of older keyboards that I really like\nthe key action, the placement, and the key sizes.\n(the backspace is two keys wide, The ENTER is two buttons wide and two buttons tall, such as an IBM Selectric, etc.) \n There are about 5 different kinds of keyboard construction.\nThere are also dozens of rare models, and depending on what\nkind it is, you either can take it apart fairly easily,\nor you should not even open the case! One type of IBM board\nhas a coil spring under each key with a rocker arm. The spring is like the one in a ball point pen, and all are loaded, so that if you take the top and bottom halves apart, you end up with hundreds of springs and parts flying all over the room.\n However. 99% of keyboards are not as complicated. Many keyboards have screws on the back. If so you can use a phillips screwdriver (star) and remove them. The top and bottom of the keyboard usually have snaps that generally open from the front first, and hinge on the back. Gently pop the two halves.  If there are no screws then the halves just pop.\nUse a flat screwdriver to pop along the seams. Every couple of inches there will be a snap.\n You will generally see one of 2 basic types today.\nThere will be a green cirucuit board with copper traces on it, covered by a rubber sheet with buttons in it, or you will find each key has a tiny rubber button -- open the keyboard upside down, so the keys and buttons are held\nin place...\nNote that the SPACE bar, the ENTER and other wide keys may have two buttons, and a wire or plastic bar underneath that has an arm on each end to keep the wide key from wobbling from side to side. These vary quite a bit in how they snap in place. You have to figure out how to unsnap them - usually by springing in the two ends which ar
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Have a look to see if your 'Clear Type' setting is still on. \n\n1. Right-click on a blank area of the Desktop and choose Properties. \n2. Click on the Appearance tab; click effects. \n3. Check the box: Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts. \n4. In the drop down box select: Clear Type.
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I got a brand new VAIO Notebook =D
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I have one to and it did the same and deleted my fonts! This is what I did:\n\nI went to this site http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h_pagetype=s-006&h_lang=en&h_cc=us&h_product=12085&h_client=S-A-R163-2&h_page=hpcom&lang=en&cc=us and selected my printer and chated with the representitive (not voice chat) and they fixed it and gave me my fonts back plus 100 more! I have almost every font known to man in the english language!!!
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♀ ♂ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♪ ♫ and so on.\n\nStart Menu, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map\n\nLook for the word Character Set, change it to Unicode, and scroll down untill you see those symbols.
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try opening up ur laptop and take out the button cell that is present on the motherboard. this will reset all the information that had been changed previously and hence ur password will be resetted. :)
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{○1ä231456789000╨♣3♥♥♥A~÷☺☻♥♠♦♣♠•◘○\n\nPress ALT then 1 on the key pad then let go of alt and then 2 3 and so on.\n\nHave fun.
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hold alt key and \nhit t then \nhit o then \nhit r then \nrelease alt key then\nhit return.\n\nsame procedure to get back to original format.
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retrace your steps\n\nor just buy a new notebook.
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This may seem obvious, but you may try to see if number lock or caps lock is on/off on the either computer.  This happens more often than you would imagine.
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Sounds like something is wrong with your keyboard.  Try using the ctrl and alt keys on your keyboard that you don't normally use.
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I did it with a restart in DOS mode or a force delete with some programs. Just make sure that there is no program that run it at that moment.
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Try pressing the "fn" key in the lower left hand corner of your keyboard once and then try typing. If that doesn't work, reboot the computer and see if it still does it.
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My take:  the keyboard is probably toast.\n\nCleaning it is worth a try, but I'd start checking into getting a new one.
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It sounds like you may've damaged your keyboard. Have you spilled anything on it, or dropped, your laptop, or otherwise done unintended (or intended) damage?