Oh yeah. I rule.

[camwyn]

My mother's laptop - several years old, still runs Win95 - recently decided that about half the keyboard wasn't really necessary, and that most of the rest was actually supposed to be completely reassigned into different modes altogether. (I.e., 'shift' really meant 'semicolon, equals sign, letter O, left square bracket, alt'.) Tried for several days to fix this. No dice. Compressed air didn't blast anything out and didn't make anything better. Tried plugging a keyboard into the port on the back we normally use for the mouse, as it's dual-classed for mouse or PS/2 kb. No dice. Bleah. Mom worried about viruses, so did one of the techsupp people; me, I thought it was acting like liquid had gotten in. It was acting like there was damage to the keyboard circuitry.

Ordered a new keyboard from Laptops for Less, for $89. Got the laptop open, pried out the old KB, got the new one in. Plugged it in, flipped it on. It worked.

Cue David Xanatos - "It's alive! It's alive! I always wanted to say that."

Thenk yew.

Comments

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Go, you!

-- Lorrie

[camwyn]

Should've seen the look on my dad's face when I handed him the dissected keyboard parts after. "Okay, here are the keys. And here are the rubber standoffs that hold them up. And here's the, er, I guess you could call it a tray, that's the bottom, it keeps the whole thing from falling into the rest of the laptop. And here are the two super thin plastic circuit layers, see, if you separate them like this the lines are different - yeah, I did this to my keyboard at college. Wanna know how it works?"