My wife's Thinkpad T30 starting acting up - the E key stopped working, and then it went into permanent enter key repeat mode. "Fix it NOW", she soothingly whispered.
So, I pulled the keyboard, did the keyboard tape trick, a distilled water rinse, lintless towelling, and air dry. I put the keyboard back, and put her laptop back into the docking cradle. Same thing. I swapped the keyboard with that of another T30. Rebooted. Same thing. Her keyboard worked on the other T30. Not the keyboard. I restarted and went into the BIOS - that worked, and the enter key worked. Later in the linux boot process, the repeats began. My goodness, could this be damaged software? I pulled her T30 from the docking cradle - and the repeats stopped(!) Checking the docking cradle, I found a expected USB cable to a USB hub, which connects to her mouse and USB dictation headset. The cable appeared to loop under a stack of papers and books. Underneath the stack was the USB numeric extension pad she borrowed to enter numbers for taxes, then forgot about. The stack was resting on the enter key. I'm keeping the cleaned T30 keyboard. She can clean the other one if she wants. And I'm hiding the numeric extension pad. Fooey. Lesson: Always follow the wires. You never know what you will find on the other end. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
