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re: keyboard problems
Friday, December 14, 2007 at 9:27 am
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Posted by paul f white (17 messages posted)


Jerry, are you trying to frighten a nervous man ? I'll pluck up courage, keep things crossed and try your suggestion, after all whats to lose? Many thanks. Paul.


On Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 12:30 pm, Jerry wrote:
>I'm going back to "hardware issue" with the
>keyboard.
>
>You might try plugging a standard 101 keyboard
>into the PS2 connector on the back of the laptop
>(while the power is off). See how it behaves in real
>DOS.
>
>I've hesitated to recommend trrying this before,
>because this is what I was doing when I blew out
>my first laptop keyboard -- which behaved exactly
>as yours is behaving now. Nobody was ever able
>to explain why using a full-sized keyboard (which is
>what the PS2 port is for) should cause a problem with
>the built-in keyboard. But it seemed to, and I had to
>replace that built-in keyboard.
>
>Jerry


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re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 12:30 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-keyboard problems (paul f white: Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 9:14 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 11:56 am)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Wed, Nov 28, 2007, 2:35 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Wed, Nov 28, 2007, 1:01 pm)
-re: keyboard problems (Benoit: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 6:57 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 11:40 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Benoit: Fri, Nov 30, 2007, 7:25 am)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Sat, Dec 1, 2007, 1:55 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Sat, Dec 1, 2007, 9:21 pm)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Sat, Dec 8, 2007, 7:28 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 12:02 pm)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 9:52 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 11:59 am)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 4:33 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 1:04 pm)
-re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 3:38 am)
-re: keyboard problems (Jerry: Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 12:30 pm)
*re: keyboard problems (paul f white: Fri, Dec 14, 2007, 9:27 am)
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