At 19:51:41 on Tuesday Tuesday 25 November 2008, "David C. Rankin"
Stan Goodman wrote:
I am experiencing a strange behavior of he kbd device. It appeared at first to be a problem of the keyboard iself, but it is not. Substituting another keyboard instead does the same thing.
Frequently, the "T" key does no display (either CAPS or lower case). When that happens, I have to punch the key several times to cause a display.
Less frequently, he "R" key (or another) will cause the appearance of the "replace text" dialog instead.
I have no idea how to address this problem. Can someone help?
(this should probably go to the hardware list ;-)
Best Solution,
Unplug the keyboard and get a shop-vac with a bristle-brush attachment and vacuum the heck out of the keyboard, the turn the keyboard upside down and repeat. Next shake the keyboard vigorously and repeat the vacuum process. Most likely there is just some 'crud' stuck between the 'T' and 'R' keys underneath the keycaps.
It's hard to reconcile that hypothesis with the FACT that the same behavior continued after I shut down and replaced the keyboard with another one. It was gone, however, when I booted up the following morning, and hasn't returned since. Whatever it was, it was not dirty, defective, or obstructed key switches.
(Last Resort Solution)
Put the keyboard in your dishwasher. TURN OFF THE HEATED DRY AND TURN OFF THE 'TEMP BOOST' IF YOU HAVE SUCH A FEATURE. Wash as normal. Allow 3-5 days to fully air dry. To speed air drying, repeat the vacuum procedure after taking the keyboard out of the dishwasher.
At this point it will either (1) work like new -- or -- (2) be time to buy a new keyboard....
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