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- From: djuneau@io.com (Don Juneau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Strange Problem...
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 10:11:03 GMT
- Organization: Illuminati Online
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-
- I've got an odd problem that's just cropped up this evening, and I'm
- hoping someone might be able to help.
-
- I accidentally spilled a *very* small amount of pop into the keyboard and
- onto the motherboard of my A500. Just barely enough spill to notice the
- dampness. So, whipped out the handy-dandy napkin, and sopped it up off
- the MB, where it had ended up around the keyboard connector adn a couple
- of those round brown cpacitors (?) behind the connector.
-
- Lo and behold, it worked fine! For a while. Soon, however, I noticed that
- that keyboard would seem to lock up for no reason. It would come back,
- and go away again or not go away at all, depending on what _program_ was
- running!
-
- A shell tends to work for while, then lockup. After the lockup, running
- Directory Opus, Trapdoor, or Term will bring it back to functionality.
- (So far these have worked - haven't tried much else yet.) However, upon
- exiting the program (ie, dropping from Term when I have the SLIP connect
- set, and transferring to the shell to run AmiTCP) kills the KB again.
- Running the program again after a lock brings it back, and it seems to
- have buffered the keystrokes I made while it was locked! (?????)
-
- This happens with two different keyboards, so I'm thinking it's something
- on the MB. I've swapped the CIAs, which didn't seem to do anything, and
- swapped the 1-meg Agnus (as I vaguely recall the KB routing through there
- - I may be mistaken). I've had KB chips go on me before, but never in
- this strange a fashion.
-
- I'm suspecting hardware because of the "Pepsi Syndrome" earlier. Might it
- be a really queer virus?
-
- Pleading for something simple...
-
-
- Don
-
-