Keyboards & Touchpads

[CollieJim]

I have reinstalled XP from the recovery disc I made.  I started to install the utilities from the "apps and drivers" disc, but was getting uninstall messages so I quit.

Some Fn keys work: esc (mute), F6 & F7 (screen brightness), F9 (touchpad), F10 (keypad cursor control), F11 (numlock), and 3 & 4 (volume).

Keys that do not work: F1 (blank display), F2 (power profiles), F3 (standby), F4 (hibernation), F5 (display), and F8 (wireless enable/disable).

Unknown:  1 & 2 (zoom out/in) and F12 (scroll lock).

I have (re)installed the Toshiba Components Common Driver and Toshiba Hotkey Utility to no effect.

How do I recover the use of the keys that don't work?

Second problem:  I thought reinstalling Fn-esse might help.  Bad move.  When I uninstalled it, I got a prompt to reboot *before* the uninstall was finished.  No indication other than a very occasional disk light blink that anything was happining.  I clicked on Reboot, and during shutdown a window flashed by indicating some DLL was interrupted.

Now, when I try to install Fn-esse again, I'm told that the uninstall was not completed and I need to reboot.  That was about 5 cold-starts ago.  How do I complete the uninstall so I can get Fn-esse installed again?

TIA

Jim

[kgustaf]

I am in the exact same situation. I hope someone can help.

[slamman]

I have this problem and technical support is of no help. They suggest reinstalling the operating system even though I've had the exact same problem with two separate NB205 computers. Clearly there is a software conflict with the BIOS that Toshiba cannot fix and rather than admit that they have put an incomplete product on the market, they just go through a checklist of ineffective solutions. I'm considering getting a different brand.

What makes this especially frustrating is tech support does not even call me back. They hung up on me (or the call was dropped) and they didn't call me back when they took down my number at the beginning for the purpose of calling me back in the event of a disconnection.

There are a lot of cheaper netbooks out there that actually work and I'm going to get one of those if this issue isn't resolved.