[RESOLVED] power button on keyboard
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    bajaforce
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    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

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    Andi
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    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.

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    phtal
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    Try the BIOS under Power Management ACPI or APM settings if your machine has them.

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    Riteous
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    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.

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    x_789
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    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

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    condor
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    Go to your BIOS and Look for somthing like
    Shutdown or off : "Keyboard 98" or "keyboard"

    swith it to "disable"


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    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
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    In some BIOS (usually Award) the "Keyboard" shut down is in the "Integrated Peripherals" section

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    StevePorter
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    You could always tape a pop bottle cap over the top of the key...

    Boo! Hiss! Stupid answer, I know, but I couldn't resist...

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  10. #10
    bajaforce
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    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..

  11. #11
    x_789
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    My God jsut buy another keyboard so that we can stop having this topic updated !!!!

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    Riteous
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    <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 !!!! </font>
    Here Here! This is starting to become insanely stooopid!

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    furlong47
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    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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    bajaforce
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    Got a new keyboard so i would like to thank everybody for all the answers,but i still would like to know the answer

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