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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hardware problem in Software ??
Message-ID: <539@ssp9.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 5 Dec 90 07:37:59 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au>
Reply-To: dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Dec4.183634.3676@csc.anu.oz.au> myb100@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
=Amyway, sometimes on boot-up, my 'm' and 'n' keys don't work. 'Fine' everybody
=says - 'check your keyboard contacts'. Well, yes, that'd be my reaction too,
=except for this: There is no way to cheat in software to get the 'n' or 'm' to
=appear either. I used Snap to pick up a word containing an 'n', and when I
=put it down, the 'n' was gone !!

I have (had :-) the same problem on my Amiga 500. What I read in some books
is that during system start up the keyboard is tested and all keys are checked.
What happened is that during booting I sometimes started typing probably too
early (i.e. during the keyboard test) and all keys pressed down at that moment
I could not use when the system was running. I now wait until my system has
completely started before touching the keyboard and I have never had this
problem again.
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