Re: can't type certain letters
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: fjd wrote: You cannot type 'w', 'r', 'y', 'u', 'o' and return key. I haven't checked if capitals are affected or if non-alphabeticals like '$' or '=' are affected. It's got an American keyboard. The problem is present when you boot direct to BIOS/UEFI. All I want to know are likely causes. I don't propose to fix it if it involves hardware replacement. So why would such a thing occur? I've never encountered this failure mode before. That would be a dead keyboard. Despite your mention of not fixing it, I think you should know that keyboards are generally cheap and easy to replace. In this case, https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Keyboard-UX330UA-AH54-UX330UA-AH55-UX330UAK/dp/B08LG1SN1V is $35, and replacement would take ... https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+Zenbook+UX303L+Keyboard+Replacement/53551 35 screws. No, I wouldn't bother fixing this. Attach an external USB keyboard, copy all the data off, wipe the disk and send to electronics recycling. -dsr- Wow, thanks for doing the research I should have done though I pretty much decided it should be retired, but good to know what a fix would involve. One of my new laptops replicates the data on the kaputt machine with a recent kernel and more cpu and memory. So this is one way keyboards fail. fjd -- fjd Verbum sat sapienti.
Re: can't type certain letters
fjd wrote: > You cannot type 'w', 'r', 'y', 'u', 'o' and return key. I haven't checked if > capitals are affected or if non-alphabeticals like '$' or '=' are affected. > It's got an American keyboard. > > The problem is present when you boot direct to BIOS/UEFI. > > All I want to know are likely causes. I don't propose to fix it if it > involves hardware replacement. > > So why would such a thing occur? I've never encountered this failure mode > before. That would be a dead keyboard. Despite your mention of not fixing it, I think you should know that keyboards are generally cheap and easy to replace. In this case, https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Keyboard-UX330UA-AH54-UX330UA-AH55-UX330UAK/dp/B08LG1SN1V is $35, and replacement would take ... https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+Zenbook+UX303L+Keyboard+Replacement/53551 35 screws. No, I wouldn't bother fixing this. Attach an external USB keyboard, copy all the data off, wipe the disk and send to electronics recycling. -dsr-
can't type certain letters
Greets! This is to solicit understanding as I don't need to fix the laptop. It's (or was) a trusty Asus UX330U acquired quite some years ago, in constant use since then. It runs Debian (Q4OS, TDE desktop); secondarily and rarely Windows 10. I was slowly moving to retire it. The issue crept up over about ten sessions but is now constant. You cannot type 'w', 'r', 'y', 'u', 'o' and return key. I haven't checked if capitals are affected or if non-alphabeticals like '$' or '=' are affected. It's got an American keyboard. The problem is present when you boot direct to BIOS/UEFI. All I want to know are likely causes. I don't propose to fix it if it involves hardware replacement. So why would such a thing occur? I've never encountered this failure mode before. fjd -- fjd Verbum sat sapienti.
