"J. M." wrote:
> > I don't see why you'd blame the keyboard, is it > > typing weird things? Does the keys work? I mean you > > didn't mention anything peculiar about the keyboard > > itself, only strange system behaviour and > > freezes/lockups which can happen from all sorts of > > problems. > > > > There's NO way of knowing if it's the keyboard > > unless you try with another one succesfully, since > > I've never in my life seen a keyboard go bad... > <snip> > > It happened to me - brand-new keyboard and brand-new > Mac straight out of the box (back in 1997). The damn > thing wouldn't boot, cursor frozen, my first Mac too, > had followed *every* instruction explicitly as far as > hooking things up in the proper sequence and naturally > being very careful with all the connectors and > everything, after much time on the phone with Apple > and doing *everything* they suggested - including > checking connections and plugging/unplugging things > etc - Apple Support themselves concluded that it was a > bad keyboard and they shipped another out via FedEx or > whatever (it got there 2 days later, not bad). I too > wondered about that, thinking "what would the keybaord > have to do with the thing booting", but I plugged in > the replacement keyboard, and voila! Happy-Mac and > everything worked fine from then on. I am glad you shared your story with us and I hope it helps the original poster, he hasn't gotten back to the list yet so couldn't tell you if he solved the problem. Well what I meant in my old message is that it is very rare for a keyboard to go bad, what you experienced was a factory defective keyboard, probably in that moment they had a lot of complaints about it (when there's one there's usually more) and that's why they had the solution at hand, since it is a rare thing to happen, BTW you never mentioned if you had to return the bad keyboard to Apple, did you have to? Now that I remember I had a very naughty keyboard (not Apple branded) that when I typed certain keys it would type several, it would happen with the 0 key and one or two more, can't remember what they were. No other problems but I dumped it. That's the only bad experience I've had. I've also seen a lot of Mac 512/Plus style keyboards in very bad shape, which is not rare for their age. Liliana -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
