indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (07/21/90)
When ever I use Terminal, within a few minutes, my keyboard gets crazy and begins auto-repeating a random character; or, acts as if the control key was depressed; or, the shift ws depressed; or even the alt key, there after, all keys I type cause crazy things to happen. Lately, even after exiting windows the phenomenon continues. Nothing short of a hard reboot fixes it. I am using: AST Premium/286, original kbd, Telebit trailblazer plus, 2Mb RAM, configured 896Kb expanded, OEM-Paradise VGA driving a Sony 1304 in 800x600x256(16?), Microsoft bus mouse. Has anyone experienced this? Is it Win3 or is my keyboard dying? No other application does this to me. Thanks in advance. -- iNDRA | indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088
indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (07/24/90)
In article <1990Jul21.095601.20110@amd.com> I wrote: >When ever I use Terminal, within a few minutes, my keyboard gets crazy >and begins auto-repeating a random character; or, acts as if the control >key was depressed; or, the shift ws depressed; or even the alt key, >there after, all keys I type cause crazy things to happen. I got my hands on a different keyboard and the phenomenon did not recurr. I guess it must be my AST keyboard. Anyone have any ides on what I should look for to fix? should I just consider myself $100 poorer and buy a new keyboard? -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (08/07/90)
In article <1990Jul24.054835.336@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes: > >I got my hands on a different keyboard and the phenomenon did not >recurr. I guess it must be my AST keyboard. Anyone have any ides on what >I should look for to fix? should I just consider myself $100 poorer and >buy a new keyboard? I think it is probably something funny about the AST keyboard (as you said). I'm in the process of building a 386 machine -- while in the process, I have the 386 mb sitting in my AST 286 case -- and am using the 286 keyboard. The keyboard fails the POST, so I had to disable that test in the bios. it seems to work ok other than that though. -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com Other: heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)