Your laptop is nothing short of an always-dependable workhorse, effortlessly keeping up with your relentless demands for professional work, multitasking, and entertainment. But if it starts misbehaving, or worse becomes unresponsive, for some reason, your work (among other things) could come to a grinding halt.

What should you do in such a situation? What’s the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to fix your keyboard?

Keep reading to find out the answers to these questions.

How to diagnose and fix a keyboard which is not working?

Truth be told: There are some situations in restoring a non-responsive laptop keyboard on your own is just not possible. In these scenarios, getting it repaired by a profession or replacing it is the only way out. But it is equally true that in many situations, a laptop keyboard can be fixed without much trouble. Therefore, before sending an SOS to your local computer repair technician, try the steps listed below.

Restart

We have said this before and we will say it again: Restarting your computer or laptop if you are facing minor issues should be the first line of action. So go on, shut down your laptop by pressing the power button and then press the power button again to start it. If your laptop is unresponsive, use this method to restart it rather than pressing the ‘restart’ option in the Start menu.

Battery

Insufficient battery power can cause the laptop keyboard to freeze up, among other issues. Power off your laptop, then connect it to AC power, and power it on. If your keyboard is working without a hitch after the restart, chances are your battery is faulty.

Clean

In case only some of the keys on the keyboard are not responding, try cleaning your laptop.

Keyboard option

This step can help you check whether the problem is related to the OS or not. Connect a USB keyboard to your laptop and see if it is working normally. In case it does, that means your laptop has no problem in recognizing key functions. That means this problem is OS-related.

Software

Have you recently installed new software (particularly graphics or games software)? If so, it is possible that the new driver software might be incompatible with the keyboard hardware. Uninstall the software to check if that’s the case or not.

System driver

If you are using a Windows system, a problematic keyboard driver can be the root cause. Open the Device Manager window by typing devmgmt.msc in the Start Search box. In the Device Manager window, check if there’s a yellow exclamation point against the keyboards section. If there is, that means there might be a problem with the driver in question. Right-click the keyboard and click the Uninstall option. Once the windows have uninstalled the faulty driver, restart windows. Upon restart, the system should automatically load the standard driver, which in turn would restore normal keyboard functions.

If the steps shared above fail to work, it might still be a driver-related issue.

Keep your drivers updated

Using the most updated device drivers can help improve your laptop’s performance, enhance security, and fix issues such as “laptop keyboard not working”. The easiest, not to say the fastest, way to keep your drivers up-to-date is by using a reliable driver update tool.

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