It's solved. He found a solution on the net. I didn't one could find one. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked for it. In the SYS prefs in Universal Access select "Mouse" and on top one can see "Mouse Keys" On or Off. His one was set to ON. He told me he didn't do anything. And I didn't know this was possible. Now I know and it's solved. Thanks. Paul Moortgat On 18 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Marcelo Gondim wrote: > Check if the NUMLOCK key's light is on. It should be... > > > On 18/01/09 11:14, "Paul Moortgat" <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote: > >> A friend with a new iMac has had a working keyboard till yesterday. >> Today the numeric keys from the numeric keypad will no longer work >> under 10.5.6. But they work when he start Windows. >> He also hooked a PC keyboard on his iMac but these numeric keys also >> don't work. And the strange thing is that all the other keys (-+/*) >> work. Just only the numbers will not work. He can use the numbers >> on >> top of his keyboard, but he like to have his numeric keyboard keys >> back. >> What can be wrong? >> >> Paul Moortgat >> _______________________________________________ >>