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Posted by BillW50 on August 30, 2006, 3:59 pm
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orinkh@carr.org wrote:
> I've got a new (month-old) Lenovo ThinkPad 3000 N100. Love everything
> about it, except: twice now the keyboard has malfunctioned in a very
> weird way. Symptoms:
>
> 1) the Windows key gets no response
> 2) Ordinary keyboard shortcuts in different applications I was using
> (i.e., ALT+ some other key) ceased working
> 3) When I hit ALT+TAB to switch tasks, it scrolled backwards through
> the tasks (i.e., left to right), rather than right to left
> 4) Something very strange with "extend selection": if anything on
> the screen was selected and I moved the pointing device anywhere, it
> selected everything in turn -- as if I were holding down the shift
> key, but I wasn't.
>
> The only way I could stop the machine from doing all these weird
> things is turn it off and boot up again. I spent half an hour at
> Lenovo's site, jumping through the huge number of hoops required to
> report a problem. Their response was to dispatch a box today for me
> to send the machine back to them. That is way overkill for me: I
> can't even reproduce the problem, so I'm not confident that they'll
> be able
> to, and by the time I got the machine back from them I would be losing
> the cost of it several times over in lost production. So I wonder:
> what makes this happen? Is it some weird combination of keystrokes
> that makes the machine go into this mode? What will undo it? Hitting
> the escape key, which is my instinct, has no effect whatever.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> OKH
This won't help, but I have 2 Toshiba 2595XDVD ('99 era). One has
Windows 98SE on it and the other has Windows 2000 installed. And both of
them will lockup. Cursor, mouse, Internet, MP3, everything frozen. I
then had to power down and reboot. Not even CTRL-ALT-DEL would work.
Later I accidently hit the Fn key and that unlocks everything. Works on
both laptops too. Thank goodness I don't have to reboot them anymore.
This model also sometimes goes into instant key repeat mode only with
one random keypress. From example if I type Windows, it might type out
Winnndows. And pasting is sometimes fun, 2 to 6 instant pastes. lol I
have heard Linux users complain about this problem as well. So it has
nothing to do with Windows.
Supposedly there is a Linux version you can run totally from CD. And you
don't have to install it or anything. And it should be a good test to
see if your problem is in the software or the hardware. It might be
worth a shot.
The microsoft.public.* newsgroups can give you more informations about
this. As that is where I heard of it from. And good luck.
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