A1000 Dead Keyboard Key

[motrucker]

Hi all,

Just took my entire A1000 apart, 'de-yellowed' the plastic, compressed aired the entire unit and cleaned areas with alcohol for what turned out to be a very nice looking unit. Aside from grounding the drive wrong the first time around, it runs like a champ with 1.5MB RAM.

Only thing left is to understand how to fix a dead key, which is my 'Z' key. Definitely could be worse from a key perspective. My mouse is also slow to run upwards. No issues scrolling down, just up.

Thinking maybe the mouse just needs to be cleaned a little better. Anyone know how to fix a dead key on the keyboard?

Thanks.

 I have to ask - Did the "z" key work before the cleaning? An internal cleaning MAY help - but a dead key is usually deeper than that.