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This morning I was groggily reading the news on my 'puter when the keyboard stopped working. Change the Batteries? No Dice. Rebooted twice? Nope. Unplugged the thing in the wall and plugged it in. Nope.
Plugged in a USB keyboard? Bingo!
So, I guess the old one died from unknown causes?
Gwen
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did you try the wireless
did you try the wireless transmitter in another port? Does the keyboard have any indicator LED's, even just for the battery?
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Wifi on Motherboard
The WiFi is built in.
Wireless keyboard transmitter
Wireless keyboard transmitter is built in? Bluetooth keyboard, I take it?
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Look on the bright side (of life...)
At least you had a spare KB. These things only cost a few $$$ so it makes sense to have a backup.
You said that you changed the batteries... Did you clean the battery terminals? Give that a try. If that fails then send it to that great KB gravyard... (aka recycling) and get a new one. Keyboards are nowhere near as rugged as they used to be.
I still use a pair of old Dell USB monsters that I bought secondhand in 2003 for £5 ($6). Those things have survived years of abuse including coffee spills and only now are they showing signs of failing.
Samantha
Honalee...
Dragons may live forever, keyboards not so much,
There comes a time it's too late for batteries and such.
You can buy a new keyboard for ten dollars and found
I like the kind that make that ka-ticketty-tack sound.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
It was well past its expiration date.
The old KB was worn out, and I refused to accept it. The letters"L" and "N" were worn off and the tabs on "F" and "J" were hard to find. The KB I'm using now is much nicer to use. :) I had actually bought it to go with another computer I was going to replace my HP with but my sight is on a slippery slope, so this 32" screen helps a lot to forstall eventuality. So, extra hardware around. I'd bought a Samsung TV to use as a monitor and found out that this TV is not good as a monitor. It is designed into me that I learn the hard way. The easy, smart way is for girly boys. :)
The Easy, Smart Way
Is for lazy people (like me!). As Robert Heinlein said in one of his books, nothing easy was ever invented by people that like to work. A lazy person is always looking for ways to do a job while actually doing less. That's a man after my own heart!
If you start looking for a new keyboard, take a look at Logitech's back-illuminated keyboard. It doesn't have the letters and numbers printed on the keys. It actually has them cut-out on the key caps, which are then filled with a translucent material. The light shines through the material making the keys easier to see, especially in low light, and there is no printing to wear off.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Missing letters
Many letters on my keyboard have worn off, but I touch-type so don't miss them. Friends come over and ask to use my computer and not thinking I always go, 'sure!!' Then they sit and look down at the keys and go, 'uhhhh....'.
At that point I get out the old laptop for them. lol
I did one step better. For
I did one step better. For years, I used a French keyboard - but the layout was still US.
That meant that people that tried to use it could never type anything correctly. Kept them off of my system.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Windows 10?
My Bluetooth mouse stopped working unexpectedly tonight. This was after a Microsoft update. I had to pair it again to get it working.
Things not working
after an update to Windows?
Par for the course I'm afraid. You will obey and do things their way or they will go out of their way to make things hard for you.
I was really, really happy to see the back of my last Windows system in 2016. 20+ years of fighting their insanity was more than enough.
Every Windows User is using what is in effect a perpetual beta release and it has been this way since Windows 95 was released.
YMMV naturally.
Samantha
Windows 3.0 was the start of
Windows 3.0 was the start of the 'Customers are Beta Testers'. They realized with Windows 3.1 (and 3.11) that people would _pay_ for the fixes that should have been part of the original OS, and thus the abuses were born.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.