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In article <804710308snz@musicman.demon.co.uk>
           scott@musicman.demon.co.uk "Scott Mordecai" writes:

> To set the scene: I have an Amstrad ALT-386sx laptop, with a Cyrix 486SRx2
> upgrade fitted.
> 
> About six months ago, I started having strange keyboard problems, centred
> around the use of Ctrl+Alt key combinations (like Ctrl+Alt+Del for reboot,
> and some hotkeys in Windows, etc.).  I spent hours cleaning the keyboard
> and such like, but to no avail.

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> All of a sudden, I've lost the use of Ctrl+Alt again.  Then a few days ago
> I couldn't read/write/format/anything floppy disks.  Remebering what
> happened last time, I removed the Cyrix chip.  The floppy drive is working
> again (for how long though....?), but I still can't do anything involving
> Ctrl+Alt, even though the keys work fine on their own.

Had this problem with the same machine before, had to resort to using a pen
to reset it via the little button .... The answer was the dos keyboard driver
KBUK or whatever its called... the keyboard layout is strange to the amstrad
so we used the original one from amstrads oem version of dos and it cured it
could be that something else is going on at the same time to harrass the floppy?
just some suggestions hope they help. (have a nose at your dos files :-))

Tim

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