Love my new Saitek Keyboard, but I don't what some of the buttons do???

Hi,

You need to e-mail Saitek for some spare keys if they have.

The e-mail address is : [email protected]

Hope it helps...

Hi,

The 1, A and down arrow represent the usual Num Lock active, Caps Lock active and Scroll lock on option available on all keyboards out there.

The 'dey' key on the bottom between the Windows Key and the Ctrl acts as a right mouse button, as in opening the menu you would open with the right mouse click.

Hope it helps.

Your Keyboard keys is just dirty inside ; try opening it up and cleaning it up -- the circuits and touch detection underneath they key could just be misdetecting the "`" on the left of the "1" key and "2" key

Hi,
I too have this exact same joystick so when I tried to plug it into my new pc (that I built 2 yrs ago as of Feb.14,11) I had to use a: 15-pin to USB adapter with chord.
I got it from eBay.ca in the $5-$10 range shipped to me from Chnia.

It's called the: Super Joy Box 7 USB Gameport Adatper

They are still available from eBay.ca & eBay.com as of Dec.06,10 (the time of writing this posting).

For me it wokrs, but only 1/2 - as in:
- the fire button + 3 other buttons - work fine
- the HAT switch (4-way) - refuses to work
- the full range of the joysticks motions are reduced (on the right side)

Because of these limitations I had to learn to used the keyboard buttons to fly planes & choppers in the pc game - GTA:SA.
I plan to buy the pc game GTA4 as soon as it goes down in price of it's current $20 & buy a...
Saitek Cuborg Graphite Joystick PS21 that is newer and uses a USB connection.

this could very well be your OS as much as your keyboard. Try another board for a few days and see if it still happens. IF not...you found your culprit. Replace the keyboard or look for updated drivers if they exist.

Are the keys working?
If the keyboard is doing absoloutly nothing, then it may have drawn too much current from the USB port and shorted it out.

Try something else in the USB port and see if that is working correctly like a flash drive/mouse etc

HAHAHA. This is old but i found out what the problem is. Hope this helps some people. All you have to do is press the illumination button at the top right of your keyboard until the keyboard backlighting is turned off and now the keyboard no longer randomly types.

Check your language settings in Windows.
In Vista you will find it in Control Panel - Regional & Language settings.
Make sure to set your Country correctly in the Keyboards section (tab at the top of the box)

No solution here, but I'd like to second that I have a Saitek 1st gen keyboard. One day it began exhibiting the same problems that you are having. When moved to another computer it seemed to work for a month or so but then started acting up again. For my keyboard, it repeats the letters "a" "s" "m" and others. Not sure what is causing it. No spills on the keyboard and it is fairly clean.

Changing the default colour involves a little dis-mantling. remove the screws from the back of the board. Carefully remove the rubber feet inserts too as there are 4 more screws under there. Now remove the top section of the keyboard (the bit with the keys) Lay the board down flat and you will notice where the usb cable comes in a circuit board. this has a connector with 4 wires attached to it on the left hand side. the wires are coloured red, grey, blue and black. Remove the connector and swap over the Blue and Red wires. Re assemble the keyboard after reattaching the connector to the circuit board being VERY careful not to overtighten the screws. Now at boot up the keyboard will by default be red.