The F light usually indicates the F keys are locked. If you look at the top of your keys, you'll see F1 thru F12, when the F lock is enabled, F keys work as standard Function keys in windows. Example F1 is usually help, F11 is save, F6 is close, etc. When the F Lock is OFF, you should see the light off and you'll lose the F function. Right at the end of the F keys you should find the key that says F.Lock
Hitting this key should turn on/off and you should see the F light go on/off as well.
However if the light stays solid, theres some sort of hardware defect going on. In some cases, shut your pc off, drain the power, connect the keyboard to a diff USB port and power up. You might be remedied. You did say you try this keyboard on other pcs and no dice? Consider it going faulty.
It is not software/driver based, because the keyboard should have basic operations without any software. The intelli software that is used with MS keyboards only provides programming certain keys and perhaps a display on your screen when using buttons like volume up.down.
Turn on your computer and quickly hit the f1/f2 keys or whatever keys it is to start bios, just to see if you can.
Keep in mind if you tried this keyboard on other computers, it takes a first time detection and it might not work immediately if there is a password to login into the computer. Once youre in, it should load basic hid/usb drivers. Reboot and see if you can type in password again.
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by: MiniDevoPosted on 2009-09-09 at 03:36:10ID: 25289752
Could be an issue with the software/driver as opposed to the keyboard. I would uninstall all software associated with the keyboard, reboot, and try a reinstall.