Keyboard error. please help

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2 total messages Started by Gregory Youngblood Fri, 08 Jan 1993 01:08

#3625

Author: Gregory Youngblood
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 01:08

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My server has started having problems...it keeps getting a keyboard error.
I've tried another keyboard and it does it again.

It is a Keytronics keyboard, and was serviced and cleaned in 92, and has been
working fine until today when this started.

Is there a keyboard controller on motherboards? Or is it all contained in
keyboards?  We're looking to figure out if the motherboard could be shot, or
if the keyboards are the problem. 

Thanks in advance for any help or insight anyone can give.

Greg

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Re: Keyboard error. please help

#3631

Author: Rene Bodenstaff
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 12:22

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In article <wk81wB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
> My server has started having problems...it keeps getting a keyboard error.
> I've tried another keyboard and it does it again.
> 
> It is a Keytronics keyboard, and was serviced and cleaned in 92, and has been
> working fine until today when this started.
> 
> Is there a keyboard controller on motherboards? Or is it all contained in
> keyboards?  We're looking to figure out if the motherboard could be shot, or
> if the keyboards are the problem. 
> 

  Most errors are caused by bad connections. Check your cable from the key
  board to the PC. Check de DIN connector (female) on your motherboard.
  Check the soldering of this connector. 

  I have had all kind of trouble with my keyboard (beeping at power up,
  missing keystrokes, etc.) and it always boild down to a rotten connection
  somewhere. 

  Something about the keyboard controller. The keyboard itself is equiped 
  with a microcontroller, which handles your keyboard input. It is controlled
  by your PC via a simple _language_. (You could program your keyboard your-
  self, and let the LEDs flash impressively on your deck... :-) ). It is not
  likely that the error can be found there.

       ---< Sonic says: "more haste is more speed" >---

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