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Re: Keyboard randomly generates a `



on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:01:34PM -0800, Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:08:16PM -0800, Francois Gouget wrote:
> >    The second feature of this keyboard is that sometimes it freezes. And
> > this time I know it's the model because it also happens on NT4 and
> > Win2000 machines. Doing a cold keyboard reboot (unpluging and replugging
> > it) plus a kbdrate fixes it. May be related?
> 
> I've seen the freezing on more than one keyboard that subsequently
> became completely useless.  I'd consider a new keyboard based on that
> alone.

One possibility is stuck keys or dirty contacts.  If it's worth the
$15 replacement cost, you *can* disassemble the keyboard and clean
everything out, but you have to dry all the parts thoroughly before
putting them back together.

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