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From: cxw3455@isc.rit.edu (C.X. Woodward )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: KEYBOARD problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.025509.837@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 91 02:55:09 GMT
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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>awhite@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andrew J. White) writes:
>I have an intermittent problem with my keyboard when I physically
>turn my computer on.  About half the time everything is fine, but
>the other half the time the keyboard does not work.  I get a keyboard
>error, the num/caps/scroll lock lights blink very rapidly, and my
>PC makes the same noise as when the keyboard type-ahead buffer is
>full and you keep pressing keys.

I'm not sure what type of computer you are running on, but if it's an AT (clone)
I might have your answer.  It seem that the 101-keyboards have to be detected
by the AT as such or they have symptoms (sp?) very close to the ones you
described.  My keyboard has a switch on the under side.  Your keyboard may have
a manual or 'automatic' switch thats flakey. (if it gets bumped it goes off...)

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