Simple keyboard problem not so simple
hi
I have a DV2045, the keys 5 6 - # \ don't work (uk keyboard). I reinstalled XP with a format and ran Ubuntu live demo. Still had dead keys.
No worries, the keyboard is faulty. Had the laptop sent off for repair and they replaced the keyboard. Got it back and the keys where still dead. Ok maybe it was me, reinstalled XP and tested with Ubuntu again, still no luck. I sent the laptop away again and again they replaced the keyboard, and again the keys didn't work.
So now it looks like a mainboard issue, but any ideas what has gone wrong? Its not an obvious group or a row, its seems a random set of keys?
It doesn't have a ps/2 connection only USB, so using an external keyboard would only test the usb controller. Your probably right to just chalk it down to a bad controller. Won't mind but its the second mainboard, and it took them 8 weeks to order one in last time. I was just hoping for someone to come up with something clever n clear, so I can use it to slap across the engineers heads. Maybe i'll spit my dummy out and they'll order one earlier, its good to be the customer for a change lol.
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