Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bagate!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpmwc From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Keyboard dead ->fixed! Message-ID: <1991Mar14.013429.19345@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 14 Mar 91 01:34:29 GMT References: Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 26 In article tm86214@cc.tut.fi (Miettinen Topi) writes: > >The disease: One day, the Caps Lock LED in my A500 started to blink, and in few >seconds, boot. This happened randomly thereafter. Sometimes it just freezed, >sometimes it booted in 5-second intervals (horrors!) > >Meet the cure: I opened the case, took the keyboard out and disassembled it. >Then I blowed any dust and hair away from the keys and especially from the >circuits. I put all things back. > >This was two weeks ago, and everything has been OK. > >Another thing related to A500's and their keyboards: >It has bothered me since I bought my A500, that the drive LED seems to be red, >when it's not lit. Therefore I put some tape around the power LED, and now it's >perfect! > >tm86214@ee.tut.fi Topi Miettinen OP Mnemonic Description >moviesAmigaTDelec Tiaisentie 17 D FDFF BUGL VMS bugcheck >tronicsRPGsleepeat SF-33100 Tampere - VAX-11 Programming Card Don't be so sure that this won't happen to you again, It happens to me every now and then on my 2000, it hasn't happened for about 3 weeks now, so any minute now i expect to see the little sucker start flashing..... Matt Crowd.