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Offline ivanscTopic starter

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dead keybaord after minor surgery
« on: January 24, 2004, 04:23:51 PM »
Sorry to be a pain, but I have hunted high & low for the answer to this one:   Been a while since I had the cover off a 1200 & in installing a 2.5" hard drive in a newly-acquired A1200, I appear to have succeeded in mis-seating the keyboard ribbon cable.
I have reopened the case and double checked that the cable is now qaccurately installed, but sadly I now have no response from the keyboard on the QWERTYUIOP{} keys - all the others work OK so it looks like I zapped either an address line on the keyboard itself or on the keyboard chip.
Since I no longer even remember which chip controls the keyboard, any slightly more expert advice would be greatly appreciated, including any possible sources of keyboard chips if that is what I fried. *sigh*
Thanks in anticipation Ivan
 

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Re: dead keybaord after minor surgery
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2004, 10:32:56 AM »
Dern you guys are quick!  Guess I suspected the ribbon cable all along but at my age (and with my geriatric eyesight) I was reluctant to start really LOOKING at the end of the cable. Still at least it is a no brainer to fix..... Thanks once again.
As a matter of interest, anyone have a cheap source of VGA to 23 pin adapters for Amiga video, and either an accelerator or a memory card for an Amiga1200? I am sick of mine telling me I have the date set wrong all the time & getting the R/T clock chip this way would be a good excuse to speed the little varmint up a bit! My other Amiga has a Blizzard 50hz card in it & the "new" one does seem like a real slug by comparison!
Thanks again for the help guys.