Re: //e key repeat problem...help!!

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

fernande@internet1.net writes:
>
>Hello All,
>
>I have an old //e.....the one with the keyboard that has white lettered
>keys.  I took is all apart cleaned everything and everytime I hit a key it
>repeats until I press another.....and that key repeats.  Otherwise the
>computer seems to operate fine.  Would this be a bad keyboard, or maybe a
>bad chip on the MB?  I just got this machine not to long ago and didn't
>plug it in before I disassembled it, so I don't know if I caused the
>problem, or if it was that way already.
>
>Can this white keyed keyboard be replaced with a later black keyed keyboard?
>If I remember correctly they mount a little differently.  Thew spacebar on
>the keyboard is missing the little wire bar that keeps it from tilting from
>side to side and binding.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>Chad A. Fernandez


This problem is the normal response of a sticking key. If you had the keyboard
removed check to see if there is a key rubbing on the case. The escape is a
likely key for this as it is located where it can easily contact the case but
does not exhibit any problems until another key is pressed and then that key
will repeat.

All four styles of the early keyboards are interchangeable. The first
production machines have the keyboard mounted to the base pan while later ones
are mounted to the underside of the top of the case. The mounting holes for all
the keyboards except the platinum models are located the same.

Owen