I cannot get the caps lock key or the tab key to work. Could they be broken?

I cannot get my caps lock key or the tab key to work. This is a wired keyboard. Could the keyboard be broken, or have I messed up some setting?

Very possibly however you haven't completed a profile so we have no idea what version of OS X you use. First thing to do is complete your profile, if you don't know how please click Profile Update.
I am going to assume you are running ML, if so open System Preferences - Keyboard - uncheck the box that says Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function Keys.
If that does not work then please reset the SMC and PRAM each 3x back to back. You can find instructions by clicking Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets

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it must already be installed on your system, normally it enables the Fn+F functions and over things like Caps lock. http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Application/LaunchManager/LaunchManager_Dritek_4.0.5_W7x86W7x64_A.zip?acerid=634061190269930459&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%207741&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=PA_6

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Is there any way of turning off the accidental caps-lock press prevention on the new Apple keyboards? (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/07/new-apple-keyboard-has-protection-against-acciden tal-caps-lock/)
I use my caps lock key as Control (SysPrefs -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard -> Modified Keys), and the bounce protection cause me no end of trouble - it is still enabled, though I am not using that key for caps lock.
I called Apple support, and they told me to return the keyboard. I do not think this will make a difference, but maybe a Genius can help me out.

Thanks for your suggestion Tom, but that's not really what we're trying to do.
On early keyboards (when I started typing on computer terminals (in the 70s/80s, yes, before personal computers, the Control key was the key to the left of "A". That was great for programmers since lots of things used Control (shell, Emacs, etc). At some point, the Powers That Be (TM) decided that Caps Lock belonged to the left of the "A" key, so people like me spent their time either hoarding the old-style keyboards or finding ways of putting Control 'back where it should be'.
So disabling Caps Lock altogether does not achieve this goal. And until the Aluminum keyboard, ALL other Apple keyboards have worked fine under OSX using the Keyboard Modifier Key swap to simply make Caps Lock be Control. This Aluminum keyboard still makes the switch and works, but at the cost of having to hold the key longer as if it still were the Caps Lock key. Many typists may not even notice this difference, but to a touch-typist, the key seems simply not to work at all.
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I suddenly have two flashing lights on my keyboard by the caps lock key and over the end/pg up key.

I encountered a problem waking my laptop (Pavilion dv7-1270us) this morning. At first it would not wake up and had to do a hard reboot. Now I have two flashing lights on the keyboard -the caps lock light and the one over the end/pg up keys over the number pad. I have run several diagnostics and cannot find an answer as to what this is.
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Can I have my HDX18 Notebook w Vista SP1 make a sound when I press the caps lock key?

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Hi, Warren - There used to be several small apps that let you remap the Caps Lock and other keys by assigning their functions to other keys that you may not use very often. There is a freeware app at the moment called DoubleCommand, for example, which allows you to assign the backslash key (\) to function as forward delete, instead of pushing fn + Delete. I don't know if any Tiger apps are able to reassign Caps Lock, but what I was mentioning above is that if you wanted, you could assign the Caps Lock function to the Control, Option or Command keys through the Keyboard pane in System Preferences. (I didn't mean that as a suggestion, though. I just meant to say that it was possible.)
Glad the first tip was helpful to you!
Good luck.
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Hi Yaronshr,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing the issue with Caps lock indication on the screen on your ThinkPad X240.
Please check with updating all the drivers and application through ThinkVantage system update utility, this will search for all the latest required drivers and application for your system.
The supported application for this issue is Hotkey feature, Lenovo power management driver, Graphic driver and BIOS update.
Hope this helps.
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How its going?
I understand that you are not able to get the capital letter c.
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I cannot get the caps lock key or the tab key to work. Could they be broken?

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