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Re: My spacebar on my ASUS K501 does not space unless you...
TRY IT IF YOU HAVE IDEA TO OPEN THE LAPTOP Turn your laptop off,Open keyboard only,see the keys under the space bar,clean it with Iso Profile(ip),sure it would work.
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Go to a hardware store.
Either that or order a new one online and hope that a guide will be shipped with it.
Sorry for the slightly rude answer, but I cannot recommend trying to change your laptop keyboard unless it is either designed for it or having multiple support/technical experience.
Though it is unlikely that a game install would modify these settings, I couldn't rule it out. It would be pretty easy to make something to do a simple registry edit that would cause either of your issues.
If something has re-mapped your keys, here's an easy GUI to set them back to what they should be (or re-map them to do something else):
The reason for this happening is that the metal bar under your spacebar is not properly attached. It's time consuming to properly fix it, but it's an easy fix at that.
All you need to do is remove your spacebar and metal bar (shaped somewhat like a tall C, if held sideways). On the bottom of the spacebar will be approximately 2-3 small clips in which the metal bar will snap into. Once snapped into place, you will want to look at the area where the spacebar goes. There should be two small clips at each end. With the metal bar clipped into the spacebar, you want to place the "ends" of the metal bar under the clips on the keyboard and very carefully place the spacebar into the hole on the keyboard and snap it into place. Now test it out and it should work fine. If not, it's likely that the metal bar came out from under the keyboard clips. The annoying part is snapping the spacebar into place without having the metal piece come out from under those clips, so you may need to perform this task a few times.
You would need to do a windows start up repair. Look up the F key needed to go into the factory restore manager should be F12 or F10 but when you 1st boot the pc up b4 or while in the ASUS splash screen look at the very bottom of screen it will tell you there which F key to hit.
You need to reposition (clip) the torssion bar under the spacebar key (a steel wire formed in a wide U shape), it is unhooked, call for a professionnal if you'r not sure how to do this as you may brake the plastic hinge if you don't know what you'r dooing...
It appears that pressing Fn (function key) and Spacebar toggles various power schemes. My best guess at this point is that you accidently did this and one of the power schemes also turns off the backlight on the keyboard to save power. Try this and see if it helps.
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Pull the space bar off by using your fingers. Underneath, you'll find a metal rod. Take note on which way it is facing, and how it fits. Make sure nothing in broken under the space bar, then put the space bar back on making sure it hooks in correctly.
There are some things you can do. If you didn't get restore cd's with unit, you can order them from Asus. If you got cd's then boot to it and restore the system to factory. If you don't want to order cd's then go to computer store and buy an xp cd and boot to it and wipe hard drive and install xp. If the system has lots of ram then just upgrade to windows 7. you can look online for password recovery but it will cost you money and sending them the info from your system.
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