Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!gatech!uflorida!codas!killer!usl!usl-pc!jpdres13
From: jpdres13@usl-pc.UUCP (John Joubert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: lockup -- mouse lock & infinite key repeat -- Help!
Message-ID: <826@usl-pc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 16:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: jpdres13@usl-pc.UUCP (John Joubert)
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Lines: 38
Keywords: Mouse, Keyboard, Lock, keyboard chip

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Eeeeeargh!

Last night while computing away I had the wierdest thing happen, my keyboard
just started sending a stacatto rush of keypresses to the computer and my
mouse locked up.  The minute I turn on my 1040ST I hear the sound of a key
repeat, it does not let up at all unless I happen to stick in a disk that 
has a desktop.inf file that wants to access a window on drive b and I have
drive b turned off.  I get presented with an alert box that says "Insert disk
B in drive A" , you know, you have all seen this one.  Anyway ... the sound
stops and the mouse is frozen, I cannot even hit return to bump the default
"ok" exit button in that alert box.  

In this state I wait for some advice from the experienced users of the net.

I suspect the keyboard controller chip, since polling the keyboard and the
mouse can be done with event_keybd().

If you have any experience with this problem , please let me know about it and
any solutions that you might suggest. 

I think that I will try to reseat some chips tonight, as that seems to be a 
popular fix suggestion from Neil Harris.

Incidentally I have 1040ST #000000054, or , number 54 in the first batch of
1040's out , in case anyone knows of such a quirk in an early series model.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

John

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