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Subject: Re: faulty keyboard?

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arturs

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Date Posted: 17:04:03 10/14/99 Thu
In reply to: Keyboard dying? 's message, "faulty keyboard?" on 07:43:31 10/06/99 Wed

Before throwing it out I would try to check it out for the PROPER CONTACT. Keyboard is attached to the board via flat wire, and the connector is kind of loose i.e. if it's shifted slightly you may experience some faults usually with side keys. Since you've problems with bottom right row I would guess that the wire has been shifted to the right.
So if you're sure in your hands, you may try to realign it yourself otherwise if it still under warranty send it for repair to ASE.
To get aquainted with your keyboard you may gently slide to the left the plastic lid ( the one with a small holes in the upper part of the keyboard) and curiously but GENTLY lift and slide the keyboard plate but DO NOT PULL IT AWAY since the flat wire connector is kind of loose ). The flat wire goes in the bottom of the keyboard plate , so you should be able to keep the keyboard plate standing upright on its bottom edge right in place without extracting the flat wire. Then you will see how it's connected to the board.
AGAIN, IF YOU'RE NOT SURE IN YOUR HANDS DON'T DO IT BY YOURSELF, because if you extract the flat wire you disconnect your keyboard. Yes, it's so easy beacuse it's meant to be so in order to change keyboard quickly, but if you don't have such experience you will spend some time connecting it back. In your case you want to just press it SLIGHTLY down holding the wire close to the connector on board. After that close everything in opposite order.
NOTE: I ASSUME YOU TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF BEFORE STARTING ALL OF THE ABOVE.

hope it helps.
Artur

> Anyone out there with a vivante se experience a
> problem with their keyboards? I seem to be having
> intermittant outages of my alt n , . keys. More
> rarely, my pgup and pgdn seem to fail as well.
> Extremely frustrating. Anyone with a similar
> experience or any idea where to get a new one?
>
> -Frank Salonga

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