To understand what happened with the F-keys and the Action Keys Mode, you first have to understand what HP means by default keys. To help people more easily access their computer, screen, and multi-media key controls, HP added an Action Keys Mode setting as a new BIOS option. However, HP changed things up with some of their newer machines, such as the Envy and the Pavilion notebooks. This is the way things traditionally worked on laptops. I have hardly ever used the Fn+F-key keystroke combinations for anything else, except for transferring my display output to an external monitor (which is Fn+F7 on an IBM ThinkPad). On most notebooks I’ve ever used, the F-keys work normally and I had no problem using F1-F24 in PC5250. One function is activated by the F-key itself, while the other function is activated by pressing the Fn key plus the F-key. The F-keys on most laptops have two functions. Here’s what’s happening when you hit these situations on an HP notebook.
So something was different on this machine.Ī little research gave me the answer I sought. The F1-F24 keys have never been part of any keystroke combination on any other laptop keyboard I’ve ever used. With every other laptop I’ve ever used, you just pressed the F-key and it worked natively as a PC5250 F-key. My PC5250 F-keys were dead.Įxperimenting with different keystroke combinations, I found that I could get my F-keys to work if I pressed the function key (Fn) along with the F-key I wanted to use.
Neither did F5, F10, F12, or any other F-key from F1 all the way up to F24. I attached to and signed on to my production IBM i box with PC5250, executed a green-screen command, and hit the F3 key to exit the screen. The problem occurred when I loaded up the PC5250 emulator software that comes with System i Access for Windows V6R1M0. Today’s tip comes from my own experience with a recent model HP Pavilion laptop that I use for my business. Getting PC5250 F1-F24 Keys to Work Correctly on HP Laptops
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