. Toshiba Portege Satellite Z830 and other laptops Fn keys are not working! I have Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7. What do I do to make the Fn keys working? Hello everybody! It is P&T IT BROTHER again. By now, many of you might noticed that we do fix computers and smartphones.
Computer Software for Steel Professionals. Changing the Toshiba Function Keys to Standard F1-F12 Mode. Keys F1-F12 on. Standard F1-F12 Mode: Press the function key by itself to use standard F1-F12 functions. Hold FN first to use.
Today, we were formatting Toshiba Satellite Z830 Ultrabook. This model comes with a 120GB SSD which is pretty fast. Our problem started after installing Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit version.
We have installed every drivers, but for some reason, all the Fn(function key) keys are not working. We had to spend more than a hour to find out why! Do you have the same problem like us? Let’s fix this! Let’s make Fn keys working again on Toshiba laptops! We had to spend a long time to fix this Fn key, but you don’t have to.
We will provide you the right solution for this. (but we cannot guarantee this will work for everyone in the world.) On Toshiba’s official support website for Z830 laptop, we installed every single drivers that the website has, but Fn keys were not working properly.
After a deep research, we realized that we missed one software from Toshiba. It’s called “ Toshiba Value Added Package“.
Let’s download and install “Toshiba Value Added Package” First of all, you need to go to download & support web page for your Toshiba laptop, then download the “ Toshiba Value Added Package“. In our case, it was Portege Satellite Z830 model. We found the right support & download page, and downloaded the “ Toshiba Value Added Package“. П˜€ 😀 😀 To see the effect, you must restart your computer first.
After restarting, if you try to press the Fn key, you will see the graphical interface on the top of your laptop screen like the picture above(some models won’t display that). By the name of this software by Toshiba, we couldn’t imagine what does this “ Toshiba Value Added Package” does, and that’s why we did not install this one, but this software is related to the Fn key function! We hope Toshiba changes the name of this software. We also hope you made it work too! Thank you have have a nice day!
I upgraded to Windows 10 and after installing I lost my touchpad, and keyboard functions, I have reestablished the use of the keyboard and touchpad, but my F4 (Display Options), F5 (Touchpad on/off) and F12 (Wireless on/off) will not work. I have reinstalled the Toshiba drivers, deleted the keyboard and restarted and am out of known options.
I use my laptop at least twice a week to do PowerPoint presentations and need all of the FN keys to function properly. I hate to say it but I may revert back to 8.1. How do I get my Toshiba keyboard FN keys to all work.
This is not an old computer I purchased it in June. If I revert, will I be able to reinstall Windows 10 within the year period of it being offered for free, or will I be ineligible? Go to this page: and check if your model is on the list.
If so install the new function key driver for windows 10 and you will be good. If your laptop is not on the list, like mine, I am afraid Toshiba will never have new drivers for us. I already rolled back to Windows 8.1.must say I really love Windows 10 but I can't live without those function keys. And, you can always upgrade to Windows 10 after rolling back, so don't worry. Problem fixed for me!!!:) I plugged in a spare keyboard. I went into Device Manager and under keyboard, there were two options (laptop and plugged in keyboard). I updated the driver for the laptop and chose from a full list of drivers (unchecked box for list of compatible drivers).
I chose a standard Microsoft brand keyboard which gave me a warning that it may not work properly, which it did not. That's why it's good to have a spare keyboard connected. Rebooted as instructed and the Microsoft keyboard still did not work on laptop.
I went back into Device Manager and changed Microsoft keyboard back to Standard PS/2 keyboard, rebooted again and now the Fn key is disabled and I am able to use my spacebar normally!! Thank goodness! Lost lots of googling hours trying to fix this one! Not even Toshiba was able to help me with this.