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PROCEDURE FOR THE "STICKING SHIFT KEY" PROBLEM
After considerable testing, PC Development determined that the
"Sticking Shift Key" problem "...appears to be either a BIOS or
keyboard problem". Please assist customers reporting the
problem, by suggesting the steps below:
1) Have the customer rapidly depress one of the Shift keys.
2) If the customer is trying to save, suggest they use the
Pull-Down Menus.
3) Have the customer try using /NC and/or /NK to start WP.
4) Have the customer try booting vanilla. If booting vanilla
helps, have the customer try to narrow the source of the problem.
5) If the customer is using QEMM, have them try using the IA
parameter on the QEMM command line.
(device=(path)\QEMM.SYS IA)
6) Have the customer try changing keyboards.
7) If the customer is still experiencing the problem after trying
steps 1-6, they may try downloading the Artisoft utilities from
our BBS (KBFIX.EXE, KBDFIX.SYS, INT9FIX.EXE, and KBFIX.DOC). On
the BBS, the utilities are zipped together under the name
INT09FIX.ZIP. If the customer doesn't have access to a modem,
they can contact Artisoft at (602) 293-6363.
The utilities are used separately. Each must be the first
element in either the .BAT file (.EXE utilities) or the .SYS file
(device=KBDFIX.SYS). If the problem persists using the utilities
in a normal environment, you should try adding /NC/NK and booting
in a vanilla environment. (EXAMPLE: Autoexec.bat file with
KBFIX, Config.sys file with files=25, buffers=20).