Keyboard Problem (Keys Not Working)

[Mike_MK]

Hi,

Got a bit of a strange problem. A friend of mine has a sony vaio laptop, and today the keyboard went nuts. the right hand side of the keyboards' keys dont work. The keys dont "not work" as such, but it replaces the character with a different (i.e. L, uppercase or lowercase, prints the number 3).

I'll give a list of the keys that work and dont work below:

WORK:
123456789
qwerty
asdfgh
zxcvbn

DONT WORK:
0
uiop
jkl
m/

Now im not sure about the rest of the keys, but im guessing the others wont work either.

Anyone got any ideas that could be software related, instead of needing to fit a new laptop keyboard?

(BIG NOTE: The keyboard does work fine under safe mode, which leads me to believe its software-orientated, yet a virus scan with latest definitions came up clean).

Thanks for any help!