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- From: ckaiser@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Po-Ching Lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Help! C64 not working...
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 17:27:03 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In <1419@swallow.ukc.ac.uk> jls1@ukc.ac.uk (J.L.Sanchez) writes:
-
- >Every time I go to my parents house i always start up the ole C64:
- >as ever, it never fails me. This last time, however, after it had been on for
- >a few minutes, the keyboard started letting out very odd symbols when I pressed
- >some of the keys. Nothing I did would help it, not even letting it cool down for
- >a couple days.
-
- Several things come to mind:
-
- 1) Is your keyboard dirty? Try prying up some of the keycaps
- and look to see if stuff is jammed in the spring or pin assembly.
- 2) Do you have a joystick plugged in? Some joysticks,
- notably in port 1, cause funny stuff to occur with the keyboard.
-
- If you notice nothing else amiss, these are the first things I'd
- look at. If other things are going wrong, there may be a bigger
- problem going on (a bum chip or something).
-
- Cameron Kaiser
- ckaiser@ucsd.edu
- visit the CWI home page at http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi.html
-