Change Keyboard typ Hotkey - Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 Notebook

there may be many reasons:- (i) your keyboard may be disabled.
sol- there are few hotkeys to disable both touchpad and keyboard. you may have pressed that hotkey and your keyboard disabled. if you will press that key again then it will be again enabled.

(ii) your keyboard's internal chip may be dead.
sol- you have to claim it's warranty to get it repaired.
(iii) your keyboard's drivers may be corrupted.
sol- sometimes keyboard's drivers are crashed due to some reasons. you can download new keyboard's drivers from its manufacturer's website. driver size will be nearly 100 to 200KB. also you can restore all keyboard default settings from device manager.
(iv) your keyboard may be damaged.
sol- no way to repair, you have to change your keyboard.

From the manual:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01114193.pdf

Hotkeys are combinations of the fn key (lower left of keyboard) and one of the function keys:
Mute and restore speaker sound. fn+home
Increase speaker sound. fn+pg up
Decrease speaker sound. fn+pg dn
To use a hotkey command on the computer keyboard, follow either of these steps:
Briefly press the fn key, and then briefly press the second key of the hotkey command.
- or -
Press and hold down the fn key, briefly press the second key of the hotkey command, and then
release both keys at the same time.
Muting speaker sound (fn+home)
Press fn+home to mute speaker sound. Press the hotkey again to restore speaker sound.
Increasing speaker sound (fn+pg up)
Press fn+pg up to increase speaker sound. Hold down the hotkey to increase speaker sound incrementally.
Decreasing speaker sound (fn+pg dn)
Press fn+pg dn to decrease speaker sound. Hold down the hotkey to decrease speaker sound incrementally.


More manuals for this model:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3678775&

You can try downloading and installing again keyboard drivers from Lenovo support website.
This could solve your problem

Does the 2 work just not the @?

Hi totanka,

http://driverscollection.com/?H=KB565BL&By=Micro%20Innovations hate to break this to you but the keyboard isn't new unless it sat on a shelf for the last 4 years,lol that link is all the drivers out for that board & has the software you need to operate it.

If you're trying to set a hotkey on a new keyboard just go to it's settings and change it's hotkey. Don't worry about the old one.

Normally there's a Function button (Fn) and you can use that in conjunction with the brightness buttons on the keyboard (looks like a sun on most)

go into control panel and go to the controllers/keyboards selection and change the setting for hotkeys. it should display the name of your keyboard.

you may have a faulty keyboard driver, go to my computer icon, right click>properties>hardware tab>device manager, then go down list to keyboards, click + sign, right click on your keyboard type and select uninstal. Restart notebook and the keyboard will be installed automatically again and should work, if not, make sure you have the latest drivers. If still not working then there is a hardware fault, but i doubt it as the software is reporting the button is being pressed.