These keys no longer work; left shift, z, x, c, v, m, and spacebar.
As you might notice, its basically the bottom area of the keyboard minus b and n, which still work for some reason. Comma (,), period (.), slash (/) and Right shift also work perfect.
I have no clue why but I suspect I may have entered some specific key combos to lock these keys/remap them?
The keys still seem to be functional in some form though because when I press "cvb" all at the same time, Windows help toggle ALWAYS opens up (b key still is typeable solo/working fine, c and v keys cannot regularly output "c" and "v"ASCII anymore, but work in the exact combo "cbv" everytime to open up help toggle button).
F1 on my HP laptop defaults to this Windows help button every time originally (it still does now as well, along with "cbv") so I assume I might've messed up something with Fn lock?
Another working combo is "znm", which toggles caps lock... (n works solo, z and m cannot type but work every time in the "znm" combo to toggle caps lock).
The final working combo I've found, just like the two other ones is "xnm" which toggles sound up. On my laptop specifically, sound up is on the F8 key. Pressing F8 Normally puts sound up, but now so does "xnm" (n works solo, x and m cannot type but work every time in the "xnm" combo to toggle sound up/F8)....
Things I've already tried:
1. Uninstalling keyboard driver, then rebooting -> no changes
2. System restore point back to 2 weeks ago -> no changes
3. Going into BIOS to disable Fn lock, then reboot -> no changes, so I re-enabled it (again, no changes)
4. Going into BIOS and pressing F9 to Restore Setup Defaults, saved changes, then boot -> no changes
5. Flat spamming keyboard to see if I'd accidentally activated some weird sleeper agent key remap through Fn -> no changes
Any help is so much appreciated...