Nope 
Originally Posted by Rexi:
Oh dear cologne ... I don't even know what the fn key is for, so can't help I'm afraid, but someone clever will come along soon x
sometimes all the fn keys on my keyboard play up.... it's not that I can't type it's these F N keys! 
I asked my brother's cat, Doris.
And she just ran away!!!
They know, oh yes, they know and they're hiding the truth !!!
RIGHT !!!
I'm leaving my latop on all night and the window open.
CCTV is charged and ready.
Be afraid kitty
Did i say it was wired to the mains? 
IT WORKED !!!
Cat came in through the window and there is typing on the screen!!
Lets just read wot it says,
"Jog on Renton ya waste of space" 
The lil shyster !!!
. . . . . and its SAINT yer flea ball
Have you tried pressing the Fn key with the F11 key Col? I read somewhere that that's worth a try.
I also found this which should give more clues as to what has happened
The f1 to f11 keys perform as either multimedia keys, or standard function keys. The default is multimedia.
To switch from multimedia to standard function, press the fn+esc keys simultaneously; this locks the keys to standard function. To switch back from standard function to multimedia, press the fn+esc keys simultaneously again.
Pressing the fn key simultaneously with an f1 to f11 key, performs the standard function.
Press fn+fx during system startup to use the function keys to access and utilize the BIOS functions (such as Boot Menu or System Recovery).
For more general troubleshooting of wireless keyboard and mouse, see http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...amp;cc=us&dlc=en
hope Cologne comes back to read your suggestions Squiggle, as the thread went off track with talk of cat torture she probably gave up looking for help in here, I know I did 
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
hope Cologne comes back to read your suggestions Squiggle, as the thread went off track with talk of cat torture she probably gave up looking for help in here, I know I did
I didn't like to interrupt Saint's flights of fancy (he was getting very inventive) and I honestly thought that the problem would have been fixed by now but anyway I thought I would add a suggestion, you never know it might work
Mount Olympus (which i would never do) I'll have you know ther were no cats harmed during this experiment.
Though my feelings have been a touch upset 
If there's any justice the cat would have been trying to spell
F***ing nuisance
Look at this little bastid !!!!
Originally Posted by squiggle:
Have you tried pressing the Fn key with the F11 key Col? I read somewhere that that's worth a try.
I also found this which should give more clues as to what has happened
The f1 to f11 keys perform as either multimedia keys, or standard function keys. The default is multimedia.
To switch from multimedia to standard function, press the fn+esc keys simultaneously; this locks the keys to standard function. To switch back from standard function to multimedia, press the fn+esc keys simultaneously again.
Pressing the fn key simultaneously with an f1 to f11 key, performs the standard function.
Press fn+fx during system startup to use the function keys to access and utilize the BIOS functions (such as Boot Menu or System Recovery).
For more general troubleshooting of wireless keyboard and mouse, see http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...amp;cc=us&dlc=en
it's worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you squigle and all who tried to help. 
. . . and the cat?
Has it apologised?
Originally Posted by Saint:
. . . and the cat?
Has it apologised?
I'm guessing you don't have a cat.
My brother has a cat called Doris.
It refuses to go outside.
He calls it a 'house cat'.
I have a feeling its under some relocation scheme with the Cat Protection League 
