Yes, that does seem to be most likely. Unfourtunately that controller is
embedded in the board. If i am not mistaken, you would have to replace the
whole mobo to fix the problem. Not likely now, considering the age of the
laptop.
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Ashley Fulks
Production Manager @ www.nisku.ca
Specialized Supercomputers for Inventor
http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp.htm
"Joe Melton"
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> It's also possible that you may have a faulty keyboard controller in the
> laptop.
>
> "Ashley Fulks" wrote in message
> news:E47CA0952407ABE36A1B0F47C4EF9958@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Sounds like you did the right thing by replacing the keyboard. It is a
> > possibility, though a remote one, that both keyboards suffer from a
> factory
> > defect! If so, you shouldn't be the only one with this problem.
> >
> > ----------
> > Ashley Fulks
> > Production Manager @ www.nisku.ca
> > Specialized Supercomputers for Inventor
> > http://www.nisku.ca/autocomp.htm
> >
> > "patagoniadave" wrote in message
> > news:EDD0AA74ABC559CADD90686567507054@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > >
> > > "Paul Humphrey" wrote in message > When you say 'acting up' what are
> they
> > > doing?
> > > >
> > >
> > > They are randomly not working. You will be typing away, and all of
the
> > I's
> > > and K's will be gone. Then it will start mysteriosly start working
> again.
> > > The first go around, if I held the keys down real hard, they would
start
> > > working again, which why I replaced the keyboard. Now that it is
acting
> > up
> > > again, I think I was wrong. I'll just get a new one, and play with
this
> > one
> > > at my leisure. Maybe I can track down the bug, there are some other
> misc.
> > > things acting funny. Thing is ancient, you know, over two years in
> > computer
> > > time is like 200 in normal people years. Like dogs, only worse.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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