Nathan
Try this
Control Panel/System icon/Hardware/Device Mrg./click on the keyboard item,right click,select 
uninstall then reboot
win2k on reboot should find the keyboard again and reinstall the drivers for it...(Found 
New Hardware and will now install drivers for it)

You can also reinstall the keyboard driver.
in the c:\winnt\inf folder  (hidden folder) right click on the keyboard.inf file 
and select install..








On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 1:19 pm, Nathan Lyle wrote:

>At some point during installing the updates from Microsoft's web site to update 
my 

>windows 2000 installation, the key mapping for my IBM thinkpad seems to have gotten 

>messed up. The right side of the keyboard is now mostly wrong (typing a j gets a 

>1, etc.) 

>If I plug in an external keyboard (either USB or otherwise) the external keyboard 

>works fine. The thinkpad's keys also *DO* map correctly prior to windows being fully 

>started up, like at the startup password prompt, the thinkpad's keys work fine, 
a 

>"j" is still a "j", but after it's done booting up, it's all messed up.

>It was during a recent re-imaging that I noticed that it was something in the windows 

>update files that was doing this, as the keyboard worked fine after a fresh windows 

>2000 install. But, not after installing the windows updates.  I've been searching 

>the web, including this site for about a year hoping to find someone else who'd 
seen 

>this, and better yet, had a solution. 

>Anyone have any ideas?  

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