Hi, But why would one handed mode only turn off the home row of keys? Even in one handed mode, you would have to use those letters. At 4/14/2004, you wrote:
Perhaps our unit got set on one handed mode. This has happened to folks, and I don't know why, but somehow the one handed mode comes on. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Braillenote] How could this have happened? Hi, everyone. This is so bizarre, you won't believe it, but if you have ever seen this, I sure could use some suggestions. I couldn't get active sync to work last evening. My systems disk had some files in it that made it down to 6 mb instead of 7 where it usually is. I decided to do a hard reset with j k l. I held down the keys and pressed reset. I let up on the keys as soon as it started talking adgain and reset the date and time wehn prompted. Still, active cync wouldn't work. I decided to do a soft reset with s d f. Active sync then worked. However, somewhere between the hard reset, It could have happened here, or the soft reset, every key on the home row from a to the semicolon and the left shift key no longer responded. Every other key on the keyboard works just fine, just not those eight keys. I have done hard and soft resets before without incident. Why this time, would the bn fry eight keys on the home row? The tech person figured it was a hardware issue and needed repair. He said he always presses reset first then holds down the keys. Guess I will try that next time, but now, I am afraid to ever do another reset<grin>. So, it cost me $66 to send in my unit insured to get this repaired. I just can't figure out what could have happened to screw up this keyboard. You'd think with the cost of these things there would be better cirrcuitry to ensure against power spikes or better keyboards so that holding down three keys while pressing reset wouldn't gry the entire row. The tech person thought the keyboard might have been ready to go out, but after only four months? I get less problems with a 20 dollar keyboard. And the keyboard worked just fine until I did the reset. I figure it has to be a voltage thing. But, still it is pretty disappointing. I have been using my desktop keyboard for two years or more. My daughter has a 1500 dollar laptop that she has had for over a year and neither keyboard has gone out. What could have caused this and how can it be prevented in the future because I will most surely have to do another hard or soft reset at some time? Thanks. Paul Henrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <home.pacbell.net/paulh52> ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
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