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bajaforce
January 14th, 2001, 04:55 PM
Hello...How do you turn off the power button on the keyboard.I sometimes hit it and it shutsdown.All i want to do is turn it off so the button is not working.I went to powermanagment and i didn't see anything in there...last hope will be to pop the button off...thanks
Andi
January 14th, 2001, 05:22 PM
You may find it in the bios under power managment reffering to the type of shutdown to assosiate with the off/power button i.e. power down after 4 second hold/soft off/hybernate etc.
phtal
January 14th, 2001, 06:08 PM
Try the BIOS under Power Management ACPI or APM settings if your machine has them. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm30.gif
Riteous
January 24th, 2001, 11:29 PM
I believe you are referring to a keyboard with special buttons like internet and such, and the power button keeps getting hit right? I haven't heard of anyone being able to change the Keyboard power button settings in the bios but I may just have missed something.
Didn't your keyboard come with software to enable the special functions? If so, check it for a disable feature. If not, it may be possible to load your keyboard as a standard keyboard and lose the extra functionality (hence, no power button problem). Hope this helped. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm40.gif

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x_789
January 25th, 2001, 10:40 AM
Well just about everyone on this page could be right. It could be a setting in the cmos to have keys set for shut down just like to start it up if its a fancy newer board. Or you have a multifunction keyboard in that case go into control panel and look at the keyboard and see if there is a new tab added for a kbd utilities if it has all the little buttons for internet and all that junk you should have a utility to edit it "Keyboard manager" is one i have seen before go in there and change button to something else or disable it. X
condor
January 26th, 2001, 06:35 PM
Go to your BIOS and Look for somthing like
Shutdown or off : "Keyboard 98" or "keyboard"

swith it to "disable"
korpse
January 27th, 2001, 08:49 AM
Odds are your running some third party software to enable your extra keyboard function keys. Uninstall/disable the software and the key will be disabled.

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condor
January 29th, 2001, 01:50 AM
In some BIOS (usually Award) the "Keyboard" shut down is in the "Integrated Peripherals" section

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StevePorter
January 29th, 2001, 02:16 AM
You could always tape a pop bottle cap over the top of the key...

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bajaforce
January 30th, 2001, 12:42 PM
Hello everyone.When i got this computer the $4.00 keyboard came with it,no software,hook it up normal,it just has this stupid power button under the delete key next to the enter key,i mite try popping it off..
x_789
January 30th, 2001, 01:06 PM
My God jsut buy another keyboard so that we can stop having this topic updated !!!! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm10.gif
Riteous
January 30th, 2001, 02:08 PM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by x_789:
My God jsut buy another keyboard so that we can stop having this topic updated !!!! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm10.gif </font>

Here Here! This is starting to become insanely stooopid! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm25.gif

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furlong47
January 30th, 2001, 02:19 PM
On my old keyboard, which was for programming/business and had extra keys, I taped plastic over the macro keys as a guard against bumping them, in such a way that they couldn't be pressed. Would probably work here as well
(Steve's soda lid example would work great)

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[This message has been edited by furlong47 (edited January 30, 2001).]
bajaforce
February 13th, 2001, 09:35 AM
Got a new keyboard so i would like to thank everybody for all the answers,but i still would like to know the answer