Ta-da! Steve, you steered me in the right direction. Sure enough the 'num lock' was lit! (blush!)... When I extinguished it, the problem persisted. Then a restart remedied the problem. Thank you, thank you !! Murray On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 04:32 PM, Steve Wozniak wrote: > At 4:09 PM -0400 2003.07.20, Murray Kastner wrote: > >> My keyboard has gone flaky on me. The internal one. Now, my external >> keyboard works just fine but if I disconnect the computer, i.e.use it >> as a true portable, it either refuses to work at all or it doesn't >> operate as it should. It gives me on-screen different characters. > > Be sure that you aren't accidentally in num lock mode. The indicator > is very hard to see. > -- > > Regards, > > Steve (is tv wake zone?)