On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I picked up two 165c powerbooks from a school one is dead the other is
> >Ok
> >except for a keyboard problem. I thought the good 165 must have a dirty
> >
> >or bad keyboard the QWERTY keys do not work. I thought I'd switch
> >keyboard and see if it was the keyboard but the same keys still do not
> >
> >work. Is this two bad keyboards? or is there some trick or am I missing
> >
> >something completely. Any help appreciated.
>
>
> I'm not familiare with the PB 165 and this is going to sound obvious, but did
> you reseat the ribbon cable in the connector and try again?
>
> The only thing that may be wrong when there is a close grouping of bad keys
> is that one line on the ribbon cable is not making a connection.
>
> This has happended to be while rebuilding a PB5300.
>
> HTH
>
> Brent
Try swapping the interconnect boards (that's the one with the battery on
it). I had a PB 180 (same interconnect board) with a ripped wire on the
ribbon and the display stopped working. :-) Examine the wires on the
ribbon very closely - they tend to be very easy to damage!
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