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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Mouse and Keyboard dieing - fixes?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 19:06:33 GMT
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In reply to another question to do with Spectre, I wrote about my
mouse and keyboard dieing (no response all of a sudden) under Spectre.
I speculated that my external floppy 520's power was being overloaded
or that the IKBD processor was going.  

Last night, I substituted a later (beefier?) Atari switching Power
supply (PS) for my original non-switching supply.  Result: the mouse
is now dieing under TOS.  I guess that's progress - I was pretty sure
that the problem was not Dave Small's code.  However, has anyone else
had this problem - must I replace the IKBD processor, or just clean
and reseat it?  For that matter, could this problem be due to something
I'm not considering?  After all, both processors *and* their software *and*
the cabling between them must be in good shape, right?  I have rather
beaten on the cable to the motherboard in past times 8-).

Thanks for any help,
		    Bob Pegram

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