
If it does, but your main keyboard doesn’t, then your main keyboard might be faulty. If you have another keyboard, try plugging it in and pressing Num Lock to see if it responds.If your keyboard uses a USB connection, plug the keyboard into another USB port and try pressing Num Lock again.

Try pressing Num Lock again to see if there is connection. If you’re using a PS2 connection, you only have one place you can plug it into.

Sometimes, it just isn’t ‘seen’ by the computer, as was the case with mine this morning. if the light stays steady when you press that key a couple of times, or if the light doesn’t come on at all (as was the case for me this morning), then the keyboard is dead.īut it may not be truly dead, as in you have to replace it. How did I know? I used a trick I learned back in the early 1990s when I worked for my first-ever software company - I pressed the Num Lock key above the numeric keypad. My new Windows 7 computer (and new keyboard) is only a month or two old, but this morning when I booted up, the keyboard was dead.
