Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!uunet!dev8.mdcbbs.com!rivero From: rivero@dev8.mdcbbs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Keyboard dead ->fixed! Message-ID: <1991Mar18.141538.1@dev8.mdcbbs.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 14:15:38 GMT References: <1991Mar14.013429.19345@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <91073.203630BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: dev8 Nntp-Posting-User: rivero In article <91073.203630BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>, BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > In article <1991Mar14.013429.19345@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au > (Matthew W Crowd) says: >> >>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 w >>>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. >>> >> >>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. > > My 500 had the same disease. One day I took it to get it repaired, but the > repairman didn't find anything wrong with it. I took it home a week later, and > it was working fine; for about 2 weeks. Then the flashing and the locking up > started again. A friend of mine, who happens to be an Amiga guru, told me that > the keyboard needs to be replaced, so 6 months ago I got a new keyboard. Since > then my 500 has been working without any problems. > > Blaise Tarr BGT101@PSUVM.psu.edu tarr@cs.psu.edu