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- From: ej@id.dth.dk (Erik Johansen (EMP))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: very very Old Keyboard Problem
- Keywords: Keyboard A2000b
- Message-ID: <ej.724672285@id.dth.dk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:51:25 GMT
- References: <fischers.724506864@unknown> <BzEoqx.AoH@news.cs.andrews.edu>
- Sender: news@id.dth.dk (USENET News System)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science
- Lines: 32
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- adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
-
- >In article <fischers.724506864@unknown> fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer) writes:
- >>Hi there,
- >>
- >>I got a(nother:) 'problem' with my A2000b (rev 4.1). Well, in fact it's
- >>nothing new, I had it all the time for the last 5 or 6 years, but I just
- >>thought I would fix it NOW. (As I perhaps want to sell my A2000 to buy an
- >>A4000:)
- >>
- >>The problem is this : my Keyboard ignores the first key I press, when I turn
- >>the computer ON. I know that I have to exchange something, but I don't
- >>remember WHAT it was. Does someone know the solution?
- >>
-
- >I had the same problem back in the old days. When I upgraded my 1.2
- >Kickstart to a 1.3 the problem went away. Maybe this is all you have to do.
- >I don't think the dealer fixed anything internally when I got the system
- >upgraded.
-
- >Edsel
-
- As far as I remember the trick is to cut two condensators on the
- main board net to the keyboard plug (I think it is C101 and C102,
- but I have to check it out when I get home)
-
- Some dealers does this when they are doing other upgrades on the machine.
-
- I will be back...
-
- Erik Johansen / Institute for Computer Science / Danish Technical University
- ej@id.dth.dk
-