I unplugged my keyboard by accident reaching for something in the back this weekend. It is a PS/2 keyboard and I was bummed because I knew I saw going to have to restart. But just for the hell of it I plugged it in anyway, and low and behold it worked. So I didn't worry about it, I installed some stuff and had to do a restart anyway.

I rebooted and find out that the number keys at the top (numbers 2 and 3) are messed up. The alternative functions (i.e. the dollar sign and the at symbol) no longer work the way they should. Instead I get this:

2="
3=£

What do I do know? I have a suggestion, buy a better keyboard.

All the other number functions work except those two. And their are not drivers for this particular keyboard, it is "plug and play".

someone just told me at the last lan that you should never ever plug or unplg a keyboard into a ps2 slot when the computer is on.  they told me it can permanetly break the ps2 port.  I never knew it either till then.

Yup, apparently there is some sort of fuse that can be blown, but I would think that would make the port break all together.  Try shutting down, unplug - replugin and boot, then try a different keyboard.  Also try a USB keyboard if you have one.

But did you try another keyboard to make sure the port isn't bad?  And the g15 is bad ass, and it uses USB.

Well, the G15 is usb, so that won't be a problem... as dwg said, hot swapping anything with the ps/2 is a big no no.  Not sure about fuses, but it will fry the port on the motherboard.  So if you accidently unplug it, if the mouse still works, just shutdown the computer, then plug it back in and start back up.

Also, might be a good idea to check the pins on the connector to make sure none of them got bent or pulled free when you yanked the cord out.

http://www.matrixorbital.com/index.php?cName=lcd-gx-typhoon

That would be better if you want to do prettier stuff with LCD Studio.

It is just those two buttons. That is it, so I know it isn't bad, it is just I might as well get another one. Just out of spite to get something different.

Update:

Sully I tried that and you are right.

Bought a Logitech G15 tonight, couldn't be happier. I installed it and it gave me the same issues as the last one. I tried sully's method of fixing it and it worked great. I thank you sully.

I take that back I did what you said and it still gave me Crap. So what I did was completely got rid of the UK layout and just selected US and then US again. Now it works, because if it wasn't I was going to be so pissed.