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From: cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Cs471s07)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Toshiba T1000SE: control lock??
Message-ID: <9089@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 16:26:17 GMT
References: <1972@charon.cwi.nl> <EMV.90Aug17163759@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <EMV.90Aug17163759@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <1972@charon.cwi.nl> steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton) writes:
>
>   Recently I've been getting a strange effect with my T1000SE: every now
>   and then it goes into a mode where every key press acts as if the
>   control key is pressed. In other words, I can't type any more.
>
>Something similar happens to me playing Sim City, the arrow keys stop working
>somehow.
>
>--Ed

Early model T1000SE's had a bug in ROM BIOS (v1.00) which might account for
this.  Try putting the lines

                     C:
                     KEYB US

in your autoexec.bat and reboot...   hope this helps!  -cah

-- 
Just a plain ole cs student.
This never fails: cs471s07@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu