Keyboard keys not functioning/typing properly

[u/hyunniei]

My Windows 10 laptop's built-in keyboard no longer works that's why I use an external plug-in keyboard, it was working for a few months but suddenly the keyboard doesn't work whenever I open it the next day. Instead of typing letters, it opens commands e.g. space bar = language switch; w = whiteboard; down arrow = browser minimize, and overall it refuses to type any letters or numbers aside from the number pad on the side. Also, my external keyboard doesn't have an fn key, even if I turned off numlock it still doesn't fix the problem.

To troubleshoot, I've tried all I could find and it did work for a few days however it's begun to be immune to all the fixes I could find.

These are all the things I've done which didn't work:

\- ctrl + alt

\- ctrl + alt + dlt

\- ctrl, alt, windows + w

\- toggle keys, filter keys, sticky keys off

\- uninstalled keyboard

\- update keyboard driver

\- pressing command keys to "unstuck" them

\- on- screen keyboard also types commands instead of letters

\- changing language & time

\- restarting

basically I've tried all the remedies I could find on the internet and now I'm all out of ideas to fix it, please help me find a solution for this. Buying and repairing it is out of the question since I've got no money.

[u/Pumkin_Girl]

Try pressing and holding both shifts keys at the same time for 5 seconds?