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one laptop key does not work
Hi all,
This laptop key all of a sudden does not work. All I get is a loud beep. I should say this key has no plastic button and also no nipple, so I am pressing the contact directly, but it was working fine in this condition. What had I changed? I was making some changes to the hard disk (removing a partition, expanding the windows partition) I updated the computer with windows updates .. not much only one minor update. It seems unlikely that these changes would result in just one key stopping working, particularly as it's the one with not plastic key and no nipple (rubber boot?) Why would a key beep and not work? |
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one laptop key does not work
On 03/10/2011 09:01, 123Jim wrote:
Hi all, This laptop key all of a sudden does not work. All I get is a loud beep. I should say this key has no plastic button and also no nipple, so I am pressing the contact directly, but it was working fine in this condition. What had I changed? I was making some changes to the hard disk (removing a partition, expanding the windows partition) I updated the computer with windows updates .. not much only one minor update. It seems unlikely that these changes would result in just one key stopping working, particularly as it's the one with not plastic key and no nipple (rubber boot?) Why would a key beep and not work? Additionally .. I observe the same behaviour even when I press the key in Setup (BIOS) .. so it seems like a serious hardware (button) failure ... A USB keyboard works fine. but is there some trick I can try to persuade this button to work? |
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one laptop key does not work
On 10/3/2011 3:01 AM, 123Jim wrote:
Hi all, This laptop key all of a sudden does not work. All I get is a loud beep. I should say this key has no plastic button and also no nipple, so I am pressing the contact directly, but it was working fine in this condition. What had I changed? I was making some changes to the hard disk (removing a partition, expanding the windows partition) I updated the computer with windows updates .. not much only one minor update. It seems unlikely that these changes would result in just one key stopping working, particularly as it's the one with not plastic key and no nipple (rubber boot?) Why would a key beep and not work? Oh for crap sake, just get a $20 replacement and be done with it. |
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one laptop key does not work
On 03/10/2011 18:29, Grinder wrote:
On 10/3/2011 3:01 AM, 123Jim wrote: Hi all, This laptop key all of a sudden does not work. All I get is a loud beep. I should say this key has no plastic button and also no nipple, so I am pressing the contact directly, but it was working fine in this condition. What had I changed? I was making some changes to the hard disk (removing a partition, expanding the windows partition) I updated the computer with windows updates .. not much only one minor update. It seems unlikely that these changes would result in just one key stopping working, particularly as it's the one with not plastic key and no nipple (rubber boot?) Why would a key beep and not work? Oh for crap sake, just get a $20 replacement and be done with it. lol .. Of course you have a point .. and earlier I did order a new keyboard .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. I suspect it objected to being poked by a human finger rather than a rubber nipple. |
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one laptop key does not work
123Jim wrote:
On 03/10/2011 18:29, Grinder wrote: On 10/3/2011 3:01 AM, 123Jim wrote: Hi all, This laptop key all of a sudden does not work. All I get is a loud beep. I should say this key has no plastic button and also no nipple, so I am pressing the contact directly, but it was working fine in this condition. What had I changed? I was making some changes to the hard disk (removing a partition, expanding the windows partition) I updated the computer with windows updates .. not much only one minor update. It seems unlikely that these changes would result in just one key stopping working, particularly as it's the one with not plastic key and no nipple (rubber boot?) Why would a key beep and not work? Oh for crap sake, just get a $20 replacement and be done with it. lol .. Of course you have a point .. and earlier I did order a new keyboard .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. I suspect it objected to being poked by a human finger rather than a rubber nipple. It shouldn't beep :-) In the old days, control-g was the "bell" character, but I don't know if you're somehow generating such a character and that is where the noise is coming from. The input subsystem of Windows may also take exception, to an overflow, but what are the odds that pressing the remnants of that key, would generate that many characters ? Paul |
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one laptop key does not work
"123Jim" wrote in message
... .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. For things that fail sooner or later, this is normal. You know your shoes will wear through sooner or later: so on Sunday you know your shoes have no holes and on Monday one has a hole. You could not know last year whether the hole would appear in the left or the right shoe, but you knew either was going to wear through, and probably one would wear through before the other. This is no reason to feel puzzled. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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one laptop key does not work
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:44:46 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
wrote: "123Jim" wrote in message ... .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. For things that fail sooner or later, this is normal. You know your shoes will wear through sooner or later: so on Sunday you know your shoes have no holes and on Monday one has a hole. You could not know last year whether the hole would appear in the left or the right shoe, but you knew either was going to wear through, and probably one would wear through before the other. This is no reason to feel puzzled. When I fixed tvs, etc. I got a lot of questions like this. Why did it break *now*? Something that either wore out or the cause of the problem was not visiible anyhow, so why did they think one could predict when it would break. |
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one laptop key does not work
On 06/10/2011 19:17, micky wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:44:46 -0400, "Don Phillipson" wrote: wrote in message ... .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. For things that fail sooner or later, this is normal. You know your shoes will wear through sooner or later: so on Sunday you know your shoes have no holes and on Monday one has a hole. You could not know last year whether the hole would appear in the left or the right shoe, but you knew either was going to wear through, and probably one would wear through before the other. This is no reason to feel puzzled. When I fixed tvs, etc. I got a lot of questions like this. Why did it break *now*? Something that either wore out or the cause of the problem was not visiible anyhow, so why did they think one could predict when it would break. There is always a scientific explanation .. even if it beyond current technology, or the will to figure it out. |
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one laptop key does not work
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:55:05 +0100, 123Jim
wrote: On 06/10/2011 19:17, micky wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:44:46 -0400, "Don Phillipson" wrote: wrote in message ... .. but I'm still puzzled why a key would work on minute and then fail .. For things that fail sooner or later, this is normal. You know your shoes will wear through sooner or later: so on Sunday you know your shoes have no holes and on Monday one has a hole. You could not know last year whether the hole would appear in the left or the right shoe, but you knew either was going to wear through, and probably one would wear through before the other. This is no reason to feel puzzled. When I fixed tvs, etc. I got a lot of questions like this. Why did it break *now*? Something that either wore out or the cause of the problem was not visiible anyhow, so why did they think one could predict when it would break. There is always a scientific explanation .. even if it beyond current technology, or the will to figure it out. There is a scientific explanation of why it broke, but what I mean is that other than sayintg it gradually wore out and it reached the critical level now, there is no way to figure out Why Now. Why is now different from any other time later or earlier. ? |
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